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Anthropology Links
Welcome to the Anthropology Links page. These links are provided as additional information to go along with the topics covered on my website. At the time of this posting, the links are all in working order, but if you come across one that doesn't work, please contact me at WWDD.
Anthropology Overviews
Presents a series of one-page summaries written on everything from Native American arrowhead styles to Egyptian chariots. Also lists museum Web sites, major archaeological sites, and rock art.
A tremendous web resource. Although the primary emphasis is on cultural anthropology, there are many fine links to pages about physical anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology Tutorials Menu
Addresses ten topics in Cultural (Social) Anthropology such as language and culture, and ethnicity and race. Also covers physical anthropology.
Formenti's Links to Anthropology
Just about everything in Anthropology. Great reference website.
Anthropology in the Americas
Along the Amazon, an Advanced Society Before Columbus
New evidence of a "lost" landscape of ponds and zigzagging channels covering more than 300 square miles of seasonally flooded savanna in Bolivia's Baures region, which borders Brazil and is washed by tributaries of the Amazon River. (Requires an online registration to the New York Times, which is free.)
An Ancient Skull Challenges Long-Held Theories
After two decades in storage, a fossilized cranium has now been identified by Brazilian scientists as the oldest human remains ever recovered in the hemisphere. Her features appear to be Negroid, not Mongoloid. (Requires an online registration to the New York Times, which is free.)
Friends of America's Past provides information about the Kennewick Man dispute, news of other ancient remains, a variety of views on these issues, and how you can help meet the challenge to our rights to learn about prehistory.
Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau
Centered on the Four Corners of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, the Colorado Plateau is 337,000 square kilometers of paradox. Learn about the Anasazi people, who built cliff dwellings and kivas before disappearing 800 years ago. Find out how scientists use fossilized garbage piles left by packrats to trace past vegetation and animal life.
The validity of the earliest site in the Americas is called into question.
Long before Buckingham Palace and Trump Tower, the Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan was building to impress. Tour this ancient site's spectacular pyramids and read about ongoing excavations by archaeologists from Arizona State University in Tempe, Aichi Provincial University in Japan, and the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History.
Vikings: The North American Saga
This exhibit now has an expanded presence online. The new Viking Voyage site contains archaeology, sagas, and environmental and genetics research.
Miscellaneous Topics in Anthropology
Up to half-hour long movies explore remarkable sites. See the unsolved mysteries of Machu Picchu: Was this Inca bastion in the Andes a fortress? Visit the cliff houses of Mesa Verde in Colorado and see Crump's Cave in Kentucky, where Native Americans carved exquisite glyphs into the mud floor.
The Center for Archaeoastronomy
Archaeoastronomers study ancient archaeological sites and try to understand how they may have been used to interpret the heavens in extinct cultures. But many claims made on the Web about alleged archaeoastronomy sites don't quite stand up to scientific scrutiny.
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
Made by incising damp clay with a reed, cuneiform was used across the Near East for more than 3000 years. Available now are high-quality photos of some 3000 pieces belonging to the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin.
A Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution. Instead of hunting for missing links, why not focus on the living links between humans and their primate relatives?
Nothing Is More Human Than Speech
Our closest primate relatives, chimpanzees, use tools, have intricate social lives, and show signs of self-awareness. But they lack spoken language, and all the capacities it implies, from rapid and flexible manipulation of symbols to an ability to conceptualize things remote in time or space.
Backdating Human Shelters. The mammoth bone home building industry (no mortgages) began a long time ago.
About the Valley of the Kings, where for more than 500 years the ancient Egyptians enshrined their illustrious dead in sumptuous tombs. Tour the valley with this multimedia atlas, an international effort to document geological and archaeological treasures.
A tour of more than 20 archaeological sites and shipwreck expeditions in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coastline of France shows artifacts from wrecks, such as 2000-year-old amphoras. Take a virtual spelunking tour of the now-submerged Cosquer Cave near Marseilles, which contains prehistoric Monets and Renoirs decorated with hundreds of images, such as penguins and pot-bellied horses.
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