General Resources
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FAMSI: Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc.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.
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LANIC: Latin American Network Information CenterOne of the largest guides for information about Latin American. Provides Latin American users with access to academic databases and information services, and to provide Latin Americanists around the world with access to information on and from Latin America.
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MESOWEB: An Exploration of Mesoamerican CulturesMesoweb is devoted to the ancient cultures of Mexico and adjacent Central America, including the Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztec, and Maya.
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A Vision of Puerto Rico: The Teodoro Vidal CollectionThis 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.
Moray, Peru
View of Agricultural Terraces at Moray, Peru
By McKay Savage from London, UK [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Linguistic Sources
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Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA)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.
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Maya Epigraphic Database ProjectInformation on hieroglyphs, glyph files, numbers and phonetic values.
Manuscripts and Codices
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The Maya Hieroglyphic CodicesThis 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.
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The Mapas Project - Meosamerican ManuscriptsThe 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.
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The Paris CodexThis 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.
Archaeological Projects & Sites
View of Temple I and the Central Acropolis, Tikal, Guatemala
Credit: Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada (Guatemala-1619) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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Caracol Archaeological ProjectCaracol 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.
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The BRASS/ El Pilar ProjectEl Pilar is a Living Museum and Laboratory drawing from Ancient Cultural Practices to create a Conservation Model for the Future of Civilization.
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Exploring Chavin de Huantar (Peru)A virtual reality introduction the site of Chavin de Huantar
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Holmul Archaeological ProjectHolmul, Peten, Guatemala
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La Milpa Archaeological ProjectOffers archaeological and environmental GIS data, photographs, a flight simulator, and also maps and images of an ancient Maya city.
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OrinocoA site dedicated to preserving the legacy of the indigenous societies of the Venezuelan Amazon.
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ASU Teotihuacan Research LaboratoryThe ASU-managed facility at Teotihuacan is part of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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Unaahil B'aak: The Temples of PalenqueUnaahil 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.
