Fourth graders investigate the use of Appaloosa horses by the Nez Perce Native Americans during the War of 1877. They examine the geography of the area and determine why the Appaloosa horse was suited to this use after looking at...

Although the title of this unit is Pre-Columbian America, the primary focus is on historical thinking. The second part of the unit explores the variety and complexity of cultures in Pre-Columbian America. Included are State Standards,...

Browse the museum's collection of pre-Columbian art by culture (e.g., Inca, Aztec, May, Olmec) or by medium.

Site opens with a map of Guatemala on which the most famous and interesting Maya Ruins are located. Following, each site is placed in a chronological period according to the dates that have been estimated.

Article on pre-Columbian Native American history and culture, including discussion on the impact of the Europeans.

Home page is an extensive search engine to locate artifacts by city or culture.

This site describes the Arawak and Taino Indians on the island of Hispaniola. Read about their lifestyle, housing, dress, food, and religion.

This site contains several lesson plans, a teacher bibliography, a student reading list, and a large amount of background information on the Aztecs.

This resource endeavours to construct pictures of ancient cultures based on clues from their tools and weapons. The picture left behind of the Aztecs is that of a violent society that routinely massacred people for religious and...

Interactive collection of presentations from the Library of Congress provides glimpses into the fascinating history of pre-Columbian Americas.

Tom Richey provides a collection of videos, lessons, and assignments to assist with teaching or studying pre-Columbian cultures in the New World through the beginnings of the French and Indian War.

Spanish content; learn about archeology in Argentina in this overview page with a variety of links to articles on pre-columbian art.

Images showing early California exploration and settlement dating from 1780s through the 1830s and describing the social, political, cultural, and economic life and interactions among pre-Columbian people of California.

This Spanish language web-site is the main page for the national museum of Costa Rica which features collections of objects from Costa Rica's pre-columbian past as well as the colonial period and beyond.

The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is the largest museum in the state, and has the largest collection of art by and about Mississippians. The collection is also notably strong in 19th and 20th century American landscape paintings,...

The Chimu people of Peru created elaborate burial masks like the one on this website. Take a look at the image and then follow the steps below to create your own mask.

An eleven-part learning module with links to images videos, and web sites with information about the Americas before Columbus arrived.

Pre-Columbian sculpture.

Mosaic, Wari culture of South America, pre-Columbian.

From the Princeton University Art Museum, this page looka at the a large postclassic Nahua ceramic effigy censer preserved in the museum collections. "Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven" examines this effigy censer from all angles of it's...

Spanish content; this article looks at the image and importance of the jaguar in pre-columbian art and in particular the Aguada culture of present day Argentina.

Essay on pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas and the development of a more structured and hierarchical society as populations grew and tools became more advanced.

Wikipedia offers great information on the Toltecs, a Pre-Columbian Native American people who dominated much of central Mexico.

The Krannert Art Museum provides a great collection of artwork from all over the world. Click on "collections" to access images of African, Egyptian, America-Pre-Columbian, USA, Ancient Gandhara, China, India, Japan, Thailand, Greece,...