Science: Archaeology: Regional: North America: Mexico

An interactive map of Mexico showing pre-Columbian archaeological sites. Plans and details of some sites.

Archaeological sites in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sources gathered by Inner Explorations include photographs of caves and a survey being carried out.

Saburo Sugiyama, Arizona State University, Dept. of Anthropology gives a description of this ancient city, with illustrated reports on excavations, chronologies and maps.

An article by Charmayne McGee for Planeta.com describing this fragile indigenous culture, a window open to the natural world of preColombian times.

Collection of text discussion, professional articles, chronological charts, images, site maps, and project updates related to the archaeology of the state of Jalisco, western Mexico. Run by Dr. Chris Beekman, a Mesoamerican archaeologist.

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.

Scholarly reports and articles by Lawrence G. Desmond, Mesoamerican Archive, Peabody Museum at Harvard University, on projects in Mesoamerica using ground penetrating radar and photogrammetry, and the history of archaeology.

Personal pages with photographs of Tikal, Palenque, and Tonina; introduction to writing, calendar; links.

Excellent preservation at CH-AZ-195 provides information on plant use and farming activities for the two hundred years of occupation.

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.

From ScienceDaily, a team of Field Museum archaeologists discovered a 1,500-year-old underground tomb while excavating a palace-like residence in Oaxaca.

Information about colonial monuments in the Yucatan region including espadaas, murals, churches, and various archaeological sites. Includes photos and maps and offers guidebooks.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old shell mound in southern Mexico.

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.

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.