Weblinks

Contributor websites:

Wendy Ashmore http://anthropology.ucr.edu/people/ashmore/

Elizabeth Brumfiel http://www.albion.edu/anthsoc/faculty.asp

John E. Clark http://fhss.byu.edu/anthro/faculty/Clark.htm

Julia A. Hendon http://www.gettysburg.edu/~jhendon/Webpage/index.html

Arthur A. Joyce http://www.colorado.edu/Anthropology/flist.html#Joyce
Report on fieldwork in Oaxaca

Rosemary A. Joyce http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/joyce.html
For current archaeological work in Honduras see http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct98/chocolate.cacao.hrs.html

Richard Lesure http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/lesure.htm

Deborah Nichols http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anthro/faculty/nichols.html

John M. D. Pohl http://www.famsi.org/research/pohl/

Cynthia Robin http://www.cas.northwestern.edu/anthropology/faculty/robin.html


Websites for archaeological sites featured in the book:


The Teotihuacan website, including the results of research by Saburo Sugiyama at the site
http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/teo/INDEX.php

The Museo del Templo Mayor website
http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/tm/index2.php

Altar Q and Copan monuments
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Copan/default.html

Joya del Ceren, El Salvador
http://ceren.colorado.edu/intropage/intropage.html

Mesoamerican Photo Archives presents photographs of a variety of Mesoamerican sites with reliable, accurate captions and includes Monte Alban, Calakmul, Chalcatzingo, and Teotihuacan images
http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~dhixson/

Mesoamerican archaeology research sources:

Foundation for Ancient Mesoamerican Studies, Inc http://www.famsi.org
A nonprofit organization supporting Mesoamerican archaeology through a grant program, FAMSI also provides access on its web site to a host of unique research resources, with more added all the time:
--a searchable bibliography of around 15,000 articles and books
--Justin Kerr's rollout photographs of Classic Maya vases
--Maya writing resources
--John Montgomery's drawings of Maya monuments and objects
--John M. D. Pohl's introduction to Mexican codices
--Linda Schele's drawings of Maya artworks
--Maps of modern countries and distributions of archaeological sites

Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute
http://www.mesoweb.com/pari/
Website with links to other resources, primarily dealing with the ancient Maya. Notable for providing access to Merle Green Robertson's rubbings of Maya sculpture
http://www.mesoweb.com/rubbings/index.html

Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Library and Research Center
http://www.doaks.org/Pre-Columbian.html
The site provides access to photographs of the collection and to downloadable PDF files of many books and articles published on topics ranging from Olmec to Aztec archaeology. These include a number of works by contributors to this volume

http://www.doaks.org/etexts.html

A particularly outstanding resource here is the publication of the Madrid Codex, one of the few surviving Maya books, annotated and with commentary by Gabrielle Vail

http://madrid.doaks.org/codex/madcod.asp


The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas, Austin, has created an online exhibit on the 16th-century Relaciones Geográficas based on their collections. Images of the maps produced in response to the Spanish Crown's questions are at

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/rg/rg1.html

MARI (Middle American Research Institute) at Tulane University, has placed photographs of their Guatemalan textile collection on their website.
http://www.Tulane.edu/~mari

The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame is an educational website developed in conjunction with an art exhibit
http://www.ballgame.org/

The best single resource for Mesoamerican writing and linguistics is maintained by Lawrence Lo, a computer software engineer with a serious interest in the topic. His materials on Mesoamerican writing start at
http://www.ancientscripts.com/ma_ws.html

The Maya Astronomy page provides information on calendars, mathematics, writing, and astronomy
http://www.michielb.nl/maya/astro.html

A simpler and equally reliable discussion of the Maya calendar is found at
http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-mayan.html

Professor David K. Jordan of University of California, San Diego, has assembled a major resource in the form of a timeline of sites and events in Mesoamerican archaeology, including comparative events elsewhere in the world
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/mexchron.html

In addition, his website has an excellent map of Mesoamerica including boundaries of all the states of Mexico
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/mexmap.html

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas, Austin, has created an impressive collection of online maps, most in the public domain. Although most are modern political maps or topographic maps, some historical maps are also included
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

Web publications by contributors:

"Peopling the Past: New Perspectives on the Ancient Maya" by Cynthia Robin
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/1/18

"Sisterstories" by Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn Guyer, and Michael Joyce
http://www.nyupress.org/sisterstories/index.html

"Images of Gender and Labor Organization in Classic Maya Society" by Rosemary A. Joyce
http://www.anthro.appstate.edu/ebooks/gender/ch06.html


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