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		Roman Head from Mexico ^Votes:0 The Calixtlahuaca Head Photo copyright Romeo Hristov Photo copyright Romeo Hristov I n 1933, archaeologist Jos? Garc?a Pay?n discovered a small head with "foreign" features in a burial at Calixtlahuaca, in the Toluca Valley about 60 km. west of Mexico City. The burial was under two undisturbed cemented floors that antedated the destruction of Calixtlahuaca by the Aztecs in AD 1510. Numerous cultural pieces found with the head were identified by Garc?a Pay?n as belonging to the Azteco-Matlatzinca period of 1476-1510. Cortez did not land at Veracruz until 1519, and did not conquer the Aztecs until 1521, so that central Mexico was still pre-Hispanic in 1510. In 1961, the Austrian anthropologist Robert Heine-Geldern examined the head and declared that it derived "unquestionably" from the Helle Read More Go to Site


		The Ceren Web Resource, Joya del Ceren, Archaeological site, El Salvador ^Votes:0 TO VIEW THESE PAGES YOU WILL NEED ALL OF THE FOLLOWING: Netscape Gold 3.0 better, (OR other JAVA, JavaScript and Frame Enabled Browser) QuickTime Plug-In (INSTALLED IN YOUR NETSCAPE PLUG IN FOLDER) ShockWave Multimedia Plug-In (INSTALLED IN YOUR NETSCAPE PLUG IN FOLDER) Total set up time: 5 minutes. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE Read More Go to Site

		1,200-year-old Mayan palace found ^Votes:0 Skip ads and navigation SPI · MySeattlePix · Reader Page · My account Local Weather Transportation/Traffic Consumer Education Environment Politics Real Estate Webtowns/Neighborhoods Under the Needle Obituaries Special Reports Corrections US/World U.S. Washington, D.C. Africa Asia Australia Canada Europe Latin America Middle East Sports Mariners/MLB Seahawks/NFL Sonics/NBA Storm/WNBA College Football College Basketball High Schools Other Sports Art Thiel Jim Moore Ted Miller Business Boeing Microsoft VC Notebook Bill Virgin Real Estate Wire Tech Wire Personal Finance Sci-Tech Layoff Tracker A&E Event Calendar Movies - Showtimes TV & Radio - Listings Restaurants/Dining Music Local Bands Books Video Games Theater/Fine Arts People A&E Wire Going Out Staying In Life Food Seattle@Home NW Gardens Read More Go to Site

		archaeology ^Votes:0 Archaeology of Maize MESOAMERICA Domestication of Maize in the Mesoamerica The introduction of Agriculture in Mesoamerica caused a change in the way of life for populations in that area. Cultivation of plants allowed for the shift from hunter/gatherer societies to a more sedentary lifestyle. Studies conducted in the last 50 years have shed considerable light on the origins of agriculture in Mesoamerica, especially in relation to the origins of maize cultivation. ENVIRONMENT OF MESOAMERICA Typically the environments of Mesoamerica fall under three classifcations, (1)extratropical drylands, (2) extratropical highlands and extratropical appendages, and (3) tropical lowlands (Modified from MacNeish 1992 using the Robert West division). The extratropical drylands classification mainly deals wit Read More Go to Site

		archeology ^Votes:0 What are these artifacts anyway? A web page designed by 6th graders to teach about the Aztecs and Mayas. Archeology is the study of what is ancient including ancient people. Archeologists excavate lost cities. They study things such as tools, utensils, skulls, documents, sculptures, human remains, and art works and put them together to learn more about the civilizations. Modern archeologists look at the whole landscape of the people in a culture. This helps us learn from these ancient people. MAPS AZTECS MAYAS ARTIFACTS GAMES QUIZES AUTHORS CITATIONS This web site designed as a Thinkquest sight. For more information on Thinkquest go to http://www.thinkquest.org Questions or comments? Please e-mail us at kayc@mail.d321. k12.id.us Read More Go to Site

		Caracol » About Caracol ^Votes:0 About Caracol 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. It covered an area much larger than present day Belize City (the largest metropolitan area in the country of Belize) and supported more than twice the modern city’s population. Urban Caracol maintained a population of over 140,000 people through the creation of an immense agricultural field system and through elaborate city planning. Caracol is noted not only for its size during the Maya Classic era (A.D. 250-950), but also for its prowess in war; this includes an AD 562 defeat of Tikal (Guatemala) and a subsequent conquest of Naranjo (Guatemala) in AD 631 (see timeline ). All phot Read More Go to Site

		Caribbean Prehistory, SEAC ^Votes:0 Prehistory of the Caribbean Culture Area Bibliography NATIONAL PARK UNITS: Prehistoric sites have been located in Virgin Islands National Park . Also see SEAC's Archaeology in the Caribbean: The Water Island Project and Archeology at Lower Camp , as well as Friends of the VINP Web pages. Outline of the Cultural Chronology of the Caribbean with an Emphasis on Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Major Periods Paleoindian Period (9500 B.C. - 5000 B.C.) Mesoindian Period (5000 B.C. - A.D. 1) Neoindian Period (ca. A.D. 1 - ca. A.D. 1500) Preceramic Subcultures Casimiroid Culture (ca. 4000 B.C. - 2000 B.C.) Ortoiroid Culture (ca. 4000 B.C. - A.D. 200) Krum Bay Subseries (1500 B.C. - 200 B.C. Coroso Subseries (1000 B.C. - A.D. 200) Ceramic Subcultures Saladoid Period (ca. 500 B.C. - A.D. 545) Haci Read More Go to Site

		Cleveland latest news and more 24/7 from The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com ^Votes:0 UPDATED: 10 :18 a.m. EDT, November 23, 2007 Cleveland, Flurries 29° F Complete Forecast \| Homepage \| Site Index \| RSS Feeds \| About Us \| Contact Us \| Advertise SEARCH: NEWS LOCAL BUSINESS SPORTS BLOGS MULTIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT LIVING JOBS AUTOS REAL ESTATE CLASSIFIEDS SHOPPING Site.com if expr="$qs=NULL" else if expr="$qs1=NULL" load href[n]=/content/breadcrumb/$qs.html elif expr="$qs2=NULL" load href[n]=/content/breadcrumb.ssf?$qs1 elif expr="$qs3=NULL" load href[n]=/content/breadcrumb.ssf?$qs1?$qs2 else load href[n]=/content/breadcrumb.ssf?$qs1?$qs2?$qs3 endif endif --> Northeast OH Local News Real-Time Local News from Cleveland & Northeast Ohio TODAY IN NE OHIO • News • Business • Sports • Entertainment • Lifestyles • Opinion \| Editorials • Submi Read More Go to Site

		Dig It, Archaeology on Ambergris Caye, Belize by Herman Smith. ^Votes:0 Articles on Archaeology and the Maya on Ambergris Caye, Belize Archaeology of Ambergris Caye Blades and Cores of Obsidian Maya Jade Jewelery - How did they do that? Maya Dental Mutilation- Ouch...! The ancient Maya and modern lawyers It's great to be King. Most of the time. Ancient Maya writing ... What is known and unknown Ancient Maya writing ... Has the code been broken at last? Whadda ya mean its a thousand years old? A day in the life of an an archeologist, or What a way to make a living Occupational hazards for archeologists- Snakes Ancient Maya Subsistence- or, How they got their groceries, Part (1), Getting Water Ancient Maya Subsistence- or, How they got their groceries, Part (2), Animals Ancient San Pedro Say, whatever happpened to those Maya anyway? Part 1 What Happened to the M Read More Go to Site

		Early Honduran Village Life ^Votes:0 Home \| Subsccribe \| News \| Shop \| TV \| Events \| Links \| Contact \| Free Info \| Advertise \| Search A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America Email this article Early Honduran Village Life Volume 49 Number 4, July/August 1996 by Andrew L. Slayman A site in the Ulua River Valley of northern Honduras has yielded the earliest evidence of village life in the area, dating to the end of the Early Formative period, ca. 1100-900 B.C., as well as pottery in the style of the Olmec civilization, which flourished 400 miles west on the Gulf Coast after ca. 1200 B.C. Previously the earliest evidence of villages in the area dated to the Middle Formative period (ca. 900-400 B.C.). Sponsored by the IÑstituto Hondureno de AntropologÍa y Historia, excavations at Puerto Escondido were codirected b Read More Go to Site

		El Proyecto ArqueolÓgico CihuatÁn \| The CihuatÁn Archaeological Project ^Votes:0 ace casi mil aÑos, un fÉnix subÍa de las ruinas de la civilizaciÓn maya, y ahÍ florecÍa una metrÓpoli en lo que ya es el paÍs de El Salvador. La ciudad de CihuatÁn, es una de los tesoros arqueolÓgicos mÁs espectaculares y mÁs importantes de CentroamÉrica y que hasta el momento ha sido desconocido casi totalmente. En los meses que vienen un nuevo proyecto arqueolÓgico dedicarÁ sus esfuerzos al los secretos de este tesoro cultural que es CihuatÁn. Sea que Ud. desee visitar CihuatÁn o solamente seguir el progreso de nuestro proyecto "on-line," le invitamos a participar en el "World Wide Web" mientras que este proyecto se vaya realizando. thousand years ago a giant metropolis flourished in what is now El Salvador, rising from the ruins of Maya civilization. The city of CihuatÁn has long remain Read More Go to Site

		El Proyecto ArqueolÓgico CihuatÁn \| The CihuatÁn Archaeological Project ^Votes:0 ace casi mil aÑos, un fÉnix subÍa de las ruinas de la civilizaciÓn maya, y ahÍ florecÍa una metrÓpoli en lo que ya es el paÍs de El Salvador. La ciudad de CihuatÁn, es una de los tesoros arqueolÓgicos mÁs espectaculares y mÁs importantes de CentroamÉrica y que hasta el momento ha sido desconocido casi totalmente. En los meses que vienen un nuevo proyecto arqueolÓgico dedicarÁ sus esfuerzos al los secretos de este tesoro cultural que es CihuatÁn. Sea que Ud. desee visitar CihuatÁn o solamente seguir el progreso de nuestro proyecto "on-line," le invitamos a participar en el "World Wide Web" mientras que este proyecto se vaya realizando. thousand years ago a giant metropolis flourished in what is now El Salvador, rising from the ruins of Maya civilization. The city of CihuatÁn has long remain Read More Go to Site

		Falling Into a Splendid Maya Ruin / Archaeologist stumbled onto site by accident ^Votes:0 Article:Falling Into a Splendid Maya Ruin / Archaeologist stumb:/c/a/2000/09/09/MN70128.DTL Article:Falling Into a Splendid Maya Ruin / Archaeologist stumb:/c/a/2000/09/09/MN70128.DTL SFGate Home Business Sports Entertainment Travel Classifieds Jobs Real Estate Cars SFGate Web by Falling Into a Splendid Maya Ruin Archaeologist stumbled onto site by accident David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor Saturday, September 9, 2000 Printable Version Email This Article del.icio.us Digg Technorati Reddit Slashdot Fark Newsvine Google Bookmarks Georgia (default) Verdana Times New Roman Arial When Arthur A. Demarest, a Vanderbilt University archaeologist, fell up to his armpits through a tangled mass of vegetation in Guatemala last winter, he unexpectedly uncovered one of the most splendid palaces eve Read More Go to Site

		FAMSI - Home Page - Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. ^Votes:0 Bibliography Grantee Reports Kerr Photographs Maya Writing Maya Who's Who Mesoamerica Introduction Schele Drawings Mesoamerica Though ecologically diverse, Mesoamerica is the geographical area where several ancient cultures were united by shared religious beliefs, art, architecture, science and technology that made them unique in the Americas for three thousand years - from about 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1519 - the time of European contact. --> The term "Mesoamerica" refers to a geographical area occupied by a variety of ancient cultures that shared religious beliefs, art, architecture, and technology that made them unique in the Americas for three thousand yearsfrom about 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1519the time of European contact. Mesoamerica is one of our planet's six cradles of e Read More Go to Site

		GB_Online's Mesoamerica ^Votes:0 GB_Online's Mesoamerica You need Netscape 2.0 to view this Page. You can still view the old version of GB Online's Mesoamerica . Read More Go to Site

		Jordan: Mesoamerican Chronology ^Votes:0 Chronology Revised 031012 Return Chronological Table of Mesoamerican Archaeology This chronology is designed to accompany Michael D. Coe's two books The Maya (6th edition, 1999) and Mexico (4th edition, 1994), on which it is largely based. It differs from Coe in some ways, and errors are my responsibility. Your corrections are invited. Thanks. In his 6th edition, Coe shifted the spelling of Maya words from their traditional renderings to the new standard. I have tried to follow that usage here except that: In some cases I have placed the traditional spelling in square brackets after the new one. I have added grave accent marks (e.g., à) to many un-Hispanicized names as a reminder of the stress, since stress rules are different in Nahuatl and Maya, the principal languages that have contribu Read More Go to Site

		Kahal Kadosh Neveh Shalom ^Votes:0 Kahal Kadosh Neveh Shalom Your browser does not recognize frames. However, all is not lost. Press on regardless! Read More Go to Site

		link to Belize Archaeology ^Votes:0 Click here for The Western Belize Regional Cave Project KEYWORDS! belize maya archaeology adventure caves anthropology jungle Mayan Belize spelunking belize maya archaeology adventure caves anthropology jungle Mayan Belize spelunking belize maya archaeology adventure caves anthropology jungle Mayan Belize spelunking belize maya archaeology adventure caves anthropology jungle Mayan Belize spelunking belize maya archaeology adventure caves anthropology jungle Mayan Belize spelunking belize maya archaeology adventure caves anthropology jungle Mayan Belize spelunking belize maya archaeology adventure caves anthropology jungle Mayan Belize spelunking belize maya archaeology adventure caves anthropology jungle Mayan Belize spelunking belize maya archaeology adventure caves anthropology jungle Ma Read More Go to Site

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		Maya Research Program Home Page ^Votes:0 About Us Archives Contact Us Blue Creek Program Yaxunah Program Study Tours Membership Academic Credit Related Links Maya Research Weblog Home Some pages require Acrobat Reader Copyright 2007. Maya Research Program. All rights reserved. Read More Go to Site

		Mesoweb Reports ^Votes:0 Revised June 4, 2001. What may have been the tomb of a Maya king has been found about one kilometer from the center of ancient CopÁn. The discovery was actually made last August and announced by Seiichi Nakamura, a Japanese archaeologist working at a road construction site. The tomb, together with an extensive building complex and dozens of other burials, was found by workmen digging in connection with the road construction project. Many of the artifacts recovered from this operation are already on display at the CopÁn site museum. The find came to the attention of Mesoamericanists again recently because of a posting on the newsgroup Aztlan and an online report by Science-Reuters, dated May 25, 2001, based on a press release by the Honduran ministry of tourism. The burial is definitely tha Read More Go to Site

		Teotihuacan Home Page ^Votes:0 Welcome to the Teotihuacan Home Page! We have created this site to offer the general public and experts around the world access to information about this ancient city. It consists of introductory pages, recent excavation reports and academic journals. In addition, we provide links to other Mesoamerican sites. Please help us make this site a valuable tool by providing us with your suggestions and comments . 13473 desde 28-05-01 This site is hosted by ARI at ASU . Read More Go to Site

		The Jewish Community of Nevis Archaeology Project ^Votes:0 It is the goal of this project to record the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth century Jewish community of the Caribbean island of Nevis through ongoing documentary research and archaeological investigations. This research is made possible in part by the support of the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society, the Nevis Field Research Centre, a grant from The Commonwealth Jewish Council, and the generous contributions of private donors. The archaeological investigation of the Nevis Jewish community is also the subject of Michelle Terrell's (Boston University, May 2000) dissertation "An Historical Archaeology of the 17th- and 18th- Century Jewish Community of Nevis, British West Indies." The focus of this community-level study, the first of its kind, was on increasing our understan Read More Go to Site

		Water Island Archaeological Project, Southeast Archaeological Center ^Votes:0 S EAC archaeologists explored seven sites on a small island off St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands in 1998. Ruins of plantation great houses, slave cabins, and historic wells were examined, together with prehistoric Indian shell middens and an impressive series of World War II era military fortifications. A vast quantity of artifacts were recovered and are now being examined by a wide array of scientists. Design on project t-shirt Preliminary Report Read More Go to Site

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