Anthropology Resources: Regional Resources: Latin America

El Repositorio de Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos naturales (DAR) organiza, preserva y difunde en acceso abierto la producción académica de la institución y sus investigadores. = The Repositorio de Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos naturales (DAR) organizes, preserves and disseminates in open access the academic works of the institution and its researchers.

The Foundation (FAMSI) was created in 1993 to foster increased understanding of ancient Mesoamerican cultures. A large number of resources are available on this site including photographs, bibliographies, and maps.

Mesoweb is devoted to the ancient cultures of Mexico and adjacent Central America, including the Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztec, and Maya.

This Web site invites you to look at the history of Puerto Rico through the eyes of the collector who captured the island’s history from the 16th to the 20th centuries with the thousands of wonderful objects that he collected.

A Photographic Collection of Ceramics from Chimú, Lambayeque and Chimú-Inca Periods of North-Coastal Peru

Maya Archaeology Photographs show Maya architecture and scenery from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and serves as a resource for the exploration of the various and complex interrelationships within Maya society.

AILLA is a digital archive of recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America. Access to AILLA and its resources is always free of charge. Most of the resources in the collection are available to the public, but some have special access restrictions. You must Register and Login to open or download any media file.

Information on hieroglyphs, glyph files, numbers and phonetic values.

This site features a translation and analysis of four codices (screenfold books) painted by Maya scribes before the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. The codices contain information about Maya beliefs and rituals, as well as activities associated with daily life, which are framed within an astronomical and calendrical context.

The Mapas Project has as its focus the digitization and study of colonial Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts. The term "mapa" was used loosely in New Spain to refer to pictorials that may or may not have had a cartographic dimension, but often showed the territories or landscapes of indigenous communities.

This site contains a digital version of an ancient Maya hieroglyphic book called the Paris Codex. The images were taken from a photograhic record of the ancient book, created by Theodore A. Willard in 1933. The original is still preserved today at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. It is one of only four pre-Columbian Maya hieroglyphic manuscripts that have survived the book burnings of the Spanish Conquest.

Caracol is the largest Maya archaeological site in Belize, Central America. In AD 650, the urban area of Caracol had a radius of approximately 10 kilometers around the site's epicenter.

El Pilar is a Living Museum and Laboratory drawing from Ancient Cultural Practices to create a Conservation Model for the Future of Civilization.

A virtual reality introduction the site of Chavin de Huantar

Holmul, Peten, Guatemala

Offers archaeological and environmental GIS data, photographs, a flight simulator, and also maps and images of an ancient Maya city.

A site dedicated to preserving the legacy of the indigenous societies of the Venezuelan Amazon.

The ASU-managed facility at Teotihuacan is part of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Unaahil B’aak (the houses of Palenque) brings together multiple lines of data to focus on the ancient city of Palenque, particularly on the Temples of the Cross Group, named after the cruciform iconography of the central tablet of the Temple of the Cross.