Mexico (Subscribe)
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Links
The "Y" Files
http://www.colonial-mexico.com/Yucatan/yucatan.htm
Information about colonial monuments in the Yucatan region including espadaas, murals, churches, and various archaeological sites. Includes photos and maps and offers guidebooks.
Search For the Lost Cave People
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/laventa/
NOVA Online follows an international group of archaeologists into the Chiapas region of Mexico to search for the remains of the Zoque civilization that preceded the Maya.
Old Mound May Lead to New Ideas About People 5,000 Years Ago
http://www.news.wisc.edu/releases/9644.html
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old shell mound in southern Mexico.
Mayan Esteem Project
Archaeological site preservation project in Chilon. Provides photos of pyramids and other structures, information on funding proposals and completed survey work, and list of board members. [English/Spanish]
Investigating Chinampa Farming
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/Fallwinter00/farming.html
Excellent preservation at CH-AZ-195 provides information on plant use and farming activities for the two hundred years of occupation.
Huichol Indians of Mexico: The Real Treasure of the Sierra Madre
http://www.planeta.com/planeta/97/0897huichol.html
An article by Charmayne McGee for Planeta.com describing this fragile indigenous culture, a window open to the natural world of preColombian times.
GB_Online: Mesoamerica
http://pages.prodigy.net/gbonline/mesowelc.html
Personal pages with photographs of Tikal, Palenque, and Tonina; introduction to writing, calendar; links.
Forgotten Baja
http://www.innerexplorations.com/baja.htm
Archaeological sites in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sources gathered by Inner Explorations include photographs of caves and a survey being carried out.
Field Museum Archaeologists Discover Tomb Under Zapotec Residential Complex In Oaxaca, Mexico
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/08/030819072927.htm
From ScienceDaily, a team of Field Museum archaeologists discovered a 1,500-year-old underground tomb while excavating a palace-like residence in Oaxaca.
Early Villages Hhold the Key to War
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4167
From New Scientist, the advent of affluent village life with communities splitting into clans may have heralded the first wars, suggests archeological analysis of ancient Mexico.
Earliest Mesoamerican Human-duck Imagery from Cuauhtmoc, Chiapas
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/rosenswig/index.html
The Mesoamerican Formative period (1600 BCE - 300 CE) represents the time when agricultural dependence and sociopolitical complexity developed in the region for the first time.
Chichen Itza
http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/mayan/TourEntrance.html
Explore the ancient ruins of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula built by the Mayan Civilization.
Cave Paintings of the Baja California Peninsula
http://www.bajaquest.com/cavepaintings/
An illustrated article by Mark Rose from Archaeology on the rock shelters painted c.600 years ago with animals and people - a World Heritage Site.
Ancient Mexico Map
An interactive map of Mexico showing pre-Columbian archaeological sites. Plans and details of some sites.