WWW Virtual Library - American Indians

Index of Native American Archaeology & Anthropology Resources on the Internet

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Stop by The Literacy Site each day and click to donate a book to a childcare center for low income children.

Alert

Stolen Pottery Vessels from Moundville

Participatory Opportunities

Archaeology Plus Rock Art Tours 

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center 

Dig Afognak  to reconstruct the prehistoric lifeways of the Koniag Alutiiq people

Earthwatch Participatory Projects 

Gault Site  Art and Archeology of the Earliest Texans

Raven Site 

Southern Methodist University Archaeological Field School  

Totah Archaeological Field School  

University of California Research Expeditions Program 

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Conferences

Archaeology and Anthropology Resources

Visual Anthropology Review 

American Archaeology , from the Archaeological Conservancy

American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation 

Ancient Astronomers of North America  by John A. Blackwell

Anthropology in the News 

Archaeological Parks in the United States 

Archaeology Channel , including many informative videos

Archaeology Resources  from The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at

the University of Arkansas including:
The National Archaeological Database
NAGPRA Documentation (a lot of documentation)
National Spatial Database with much data on the distribution of archaeological sites in the U.S. and links to other information.

Arkansas Archaeological Survey 

Center for Archaeoastronomy 

Center for the Study of the First Americans 

Ethnography of Lewis and Clark 

from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

Finding Lists for the Peabody Collections 

James Q. Jacobs Archaeology 

Kennewick Man  in Anthro Notes, National Museum of Natural History Bulletin for Teachers

LITHICS-Net 

North American Archeology 

Photographs of Ancient sites in the Americas  by Clive Ruggles

Publications of the Center for Archaeological Investigations 

Southern Illinois University

Quicktime Movies , including TIkal, Pictographs and ruins in Utah

Roots of NAGPRA: An Interview with Steve Russell  at About.com

Ur-List of Anthropological Web Resources 

WWWorld of Archaeology 

Subscribe to Archaeology Magazine

Subscribe to National Geographic Magazine

Subscribe to Smithsonian Magazine

Subscribe to American History Illustrated Magazine

Southwest

Ruins of Chettro Kettle Pueblo Photograph Buy at AllPosters.com

How the Shaman Stole the Moon  by William H. Calvin.

Agave Project 

American Indian Studies sites on the Web  from the University of Arizona Library

Amerind Foundation Museum and Archaeological Research Facility 

Anasazi Great Houses 

Anasazi Heritage Center 

Anasazi Site Planning: Historic Precedents, Modern Constructs, and Multi-cultural Dynamic 

by Jon Bryan Burley [Missing 1/21/07]

Anthropology & Archaeology on the Web  from the University of Arizona Library

Anthropology and Archaeology Resources of New Mexico 

Archaeological Research Institute Virtual Museum of Archaeology, Arizona State University

Southwest
Mesoamerica

Archaeology Field School , Southern Methodist University

Casa Grande Ruins 

Dennis Holloway, Architect  offering image reconstructions of pueblo sites.

Ethridge Collection of prehistoric southwestern ceramics 

Excerpt from The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona   by J. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey

from the University of Arizona Press.

Gran Quivira: A Blending of Cultures in a Pueblo Indian Village 

Hovenweep 

Hueco Tanks State Historical Park 

Indian Peaks Chapter  of the Colorado Archaeology Society

Indian Ruins of the Southwest  by Michael L. Holder

Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 

Mesa Verde Museum Association  Guide to Mesa Verde National Park

Navajo Nation Archaeology Department (NNAD)  at Northern Arizona University

Projects of the Anthropology Dept, UTexas - Austin 

Remote Sensing of Chaco Canyon Roadways , NASA

Sandals of the Anasazi 

School of American Research 

Sipapu: The Anasazi Emergence into the Cyber World: including:

An Evaluation of Chaco Anasazi Roads, by John Kantner, UC Santa Barbara

Chetro Ketl Great Kiva, Including a VRML model.

Kin Tl'iish Great House tour

Society For California Archaeology 

Southwestern Archaeology 

Texas Arrowheads 

Texas Beyond History 

Virtual Tour of Hovenweep 

Western National Parks 

Great Plains

A Brief Culture History of Iowa 

also Learn About Iowa's Past

Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment 

A Study in Indian and White Ingenuity By John C. Ewers
Anthropological Papers, No. 50, From the Bureau of American Ethnology BULLETIN 164

Iowa Burial Protection Program 

Kansas Archaeology Index  from the Kansas State Historical Society

Minnesota Archaeology  - From Site to Story

Minnesota Historic Sites  including:

The Jeffers Petroglyphs

The Lower Sioux Agency

Lac Qui Parle Mission

Fort Ridgely

North West Fur Post

Grand Mound

Mille Lacs Indian Museum

Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village 

Pawnee Indian Village State Historic Site 

South Dakota Anthropology 

Upper Midwest Rock Art Research Assoc. 

Southeast & Mississippian

Indian Shell Mound, St. Petersburg, Florida Buy at AllPosters.com

Ancient Architects of the Mississippi  from the National Park Service, also:

Monumental American Indian Architecture

The Mississippian and Late Prehistoric Period (A.D 900 - 1700)

Archaeology and the Native Peoples of Tennessee

The Mississippi Moundbuilders and their Artifacts

Ocmulgee National Monument
Friends of Ocmulgee Old Fields

Ancient Monuments in Arkansas 

Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park

Anthropology Collections at Southern Methodist University 

Archaeological Society of South Carolina, Inc.  (ASSC)

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site 

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site 

Chaves-Hummingbird Pueblo 

from Southern Methodist University

Chucalissa Archeological Museum  the remains of a small Mississippian town in Tennessee

Dallas County Administration Building Archeological Project 

Dickson Mounds Museu 

Dynamic Model of Stability and Change in Mississippian Agricultural Systems 

William W. Baden, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Essential features of Adena ritual 

by R. Berle Clay, Office of State Archaeologist and Department of Anthropology

Etowah Indian Mounds 

Georgia Indians 

History of Native Americans in West Virginia 

Hopewell Archaeology 

Hopewell Archeology Newsletter from the National Park Service

Hutchison Research Center 

Impact of Fluctuating Agricultural Potential on Coosa's Sociopolitical and Settlement Systems 

William W. Baden, University of Indiana

Introduction to the Prehistory of Indiana  from the Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology

Louisana Prehistory 

Marksville State Commemorative Area  prehistoric Indian ceremonial center

Moundville Archaeological Park 

North Carolina Archaeological Society 

North Carolina Archaeology 

North Carolina Archaeology Publications , Index, 1949-1995

North Carolina's First Colonists: 12,000 Years Before Roanoke 

Stephen R. Claggett, Office of State Archaeology, North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office

Office of Archaeological Research , University of Alabama

Outline of Prehistory and History in the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean Culture Area 

with Reference to Relevant National Park Units in the Southeast Field Area

Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Area 

Pioneers of Southeastern Archaeology: Gordon R. Willey 

Archaeology of the Florida Gulf Coast

Poverty Point Earthworks , A Terminal Archaic Culture of the Lower Mississippi Valley

Poverty Point Earthworks: Evolutionary Milestones of the Americas  

Poverty Point State Commemorative Area 

Poverty Point: The First Complex Delta Culture  by Jon L. Gibson

Prehistory of the Upper Cumberland River Drainage in the Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee Border Region 

by Jonathan P. Kerr

Recent papers on Mississippian Archaeology 

Jon Muller, Southern Illinois University

Reports and Summaries of North Carolina Archaeological Sites 

Projectile Points of the North Carolina Piedmont

Sampling of North Carolina's Archaeological Sites 

South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology 

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park 

Texas Archaeological Society 

Texas State Parks  including:

Caddoan Mounds State Historical Park

Hueco Tanks State Historical Park

Seminole Canyon State Historical Park

The Carolina Algonkians 

The Hopewell Earthworks and Hopewell Culture  from the National Park Service

West Coast

8000 Years of Change at Morro Bay: An Archaeological Perspective 

Archaeological Research Facility 

Battle Over Bones  special Report to Archaeology Magazine

Calif. State Parks and Archaeology , California State Parks

California Prehistory 

California Rock Art 

Chumash Painted Cave 

Eel River Petroglyph Site 

Excavation of a Kashaya Pomo Village in Northern Californi  by Antoinette Martinez

Gifting and Feasting in the Northwest Coast Potlatch 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

Ishi Was Not Necessarily the Last Full-Blooded Yahi  by M. Steven Shackley

Miwok Archaeological Preserve of Marin 

Oregon Prehistory , Dr. Leland Gilsen, retired Oregon "State Archaeologist

Red Abalone Midden Project 

Torrey Pines State Reserve 

Northeast

2000 Excavations at the OEC 1 Site 

2001 Archaeological Investigations at the OEC 1 Site (33Cu462) 

Before the Western Reserve: An Archaeological History of Northeast Ohio 

Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology (CNEHA) 

Danbury Site Excavations, 2004 from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Excavation of the Great Circle Wall at High Bank Works: 1997 and 2002 

Excavations at Mentor Lagoons: The 2002 Archaeology Field Experience Program 

Excavations at the Dey Armin Site 

Excavations at the Perry Land Lab 3 Site 

Ganondagan State Historic Site  in New York State dedicated to Native Americans.

Mud and Muck Society 

Signatures of Connecticut Sachems 

Windham County Algonquian Placenames 

Canada & Alaska

Ancient Canada  [Missing 6/15/06]

Archaeology in British Columbia  from The Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Simon Fraser University

Arctic Archaeology  from the Anthropology Department at the University of Waterloo.

Arctic Studies Center , Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Canadian Arctic Prehistory  [Missing 6/15/06]

Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump 

How Old Monica Ataguttaaluk Introduced Me to Arctic Archaeology  [Missing 6/15/06]

Human History & Archaeology 

Manitoba Culture History 

Nova Scotia Archaeology 

Prehistory and Prehistoric Art of the Canadian Inuit  [Missing 6/15/06]

Prehistory of Alaska 

The Dorset  [Missing 6/15/06]

Vanished Peoples: The Archaic Dorset & Beothuk People of Newfoundland  [Missing 6/15/06]

Mexico

Tourists Climb Step Pyramid at Chichen Itza Photograph Buy at AllPosters.com

Ancient Teotihuacan 

Archaeological Research in Jalisco 

Aztec Calendar 

AZTLAN E-Journal 

Casas Grandes, La Antigua Paquimé  [Missing 1/06/08]

Chichen Itza 

Cultura maya en el estado de Campeche  (en Español)

El Tajin, Veracruz 

Espejo de La Vida , Arte Funerario del Occidente de México

GB Online's Mesoamerica 

Goddesses of the Borgia Group Codexes 

How are the prehispanic calendars interpreted? 

Huichol Ethnography And Archaeological Interpretation 

Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia 

Mayan Epigraphic Database Project 

Mayan Ruins 

Mesoamerican Archaeology 

Monte Alban 

Museo del Templo Mayor 

Palenque 

Paula Giese's Maya page 

Photographic Guide to Decorated Ceramics of the Malpaso Valley 

Vincent W. Schiavitti and Ben Nelson, Ariz. State Univ.

Prehispanic Literature of Mexico (Español)

Rabbit in the Moon , Mayan writing, calendars, architecture and culture

Teotihuacan: City of the Gods 

Yaxuná Project 

Central America & the Caribbean

A Tzeltal Maya Dictionary , Luisa Maffi

Ancient Maya Codices 

Ancient Mayan City of Xunantunich, Belize  [Missing 1/06/08]

Brass/El Pilar Project 

Central American Archaeology 

Centro Ceremonial Indigena de Tibes 

Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs  John Montgomery

Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts  (Big! in PDF format)

Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI) 

Institute for Mesoamerican Studies 

Maya Museum , Renewing a Century of Harvard Connections to Copán by Jonathon Shaw

Maya: Portraits of a People 

New Stela at Tikal 

One Hundred Years of Anthropology in Costa Rica 

Pokom Maya and Their Colonial Dictionaries , Lawrence H. Feldman

Saving the Maya Past for the Future: Copán's New Sculpture Museum 

by Barbara W. Fash and William L. Fash

South America

Ice Treasures of the Inca 

Proyecto Ai Apaec 

South American Archaeology  at ArchNet

Rock Art

15th-Century Petroglyph Showing a Warrior with a Bear-Claw Shield Photograph Block, Ira Buy at AllPosters.com

42Gr532: A Rock Art E-'Zine 

American Rock Art Research Association 

Ancient Rock Art Info Sources 

Archaeology of Rock Art: Recent Research in Baja California Sur, Mexico 

Australian Rock Art Research Association 

Chumash Rock Art 

Eastern States Rock Art Research Association 

Footsteps of Man 

Grand Gulch Rock Art 

Hohokam Rock Art 

International Rock Art Database Project 

Petroglyph National Monument Rock Art Images

The Pueblo of Sandia Petroglyph Project

Links to Rock Art Web Sites 

Petroglyph Pullout  Capitol Reed National Park

Photographs of Chumash & Luiseo rock art in California 

Rock Art Foundation (RAF) 

Rock art in Alberta 

Rock Art in Arkansas 

Rock Art Net 

Rock Art of Los Lunas 

Rock Art Of The Southwest 

Rock Art Photgraphs from the Cline Library 

Sanilac, MI Petroglyphs 

Shamanic Tradition in Chumash Rock Art 

Southwestern U. S. Rock Art Gallery 

Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, NM  

TOMOL: On-Line Archive of Digital Images of Rock Art from the Western United States  

Utah Rock Art Research Assoc. 

Visualizing Rock Art in Northwest Arkansas 

Worldwide links to Rock Art sites 

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Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions ,

by Timothy R. Pauketat
Altamira Press

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