This timeline gives a contextual view of major events from from Pre-Columbian America to 2005. Each period covers a unit in the America's History in the Making course.

Bat-human imagery in ancient Central American art is often linked to religious beliefs and practices. View pictures and read descriptions of a pendant in the form of a bat-human found in a grave near Panama City in this essay. A video...

One of the most extraordinary masterpieces of the pre-Columbian Americas is a nearly 2,000-year-old cloth from the South Coast of Peru. View detailed pictures and read the backstory of this textile in this essay.

The World Museum of Man endeavours to construct pictures of ancient cultures based on clues from their tools and weapons. The picture left behind of the Maya is that of a scientifically advanced society, but one devoted to gods that...

Examine some of the rare books, maps, prints and other artifacts in this online exhibition. The exhibition explores several themes on the cultures and history of the Americas. The collection focuses on the period of pre-contact through...

This page is an article entitled "Messages From The Past - Panama's Petroglyphs," by Louis R. Granger. It is taken from The Panama Canal Review, May 1969. It is a very interesting article about this aspect of Pre-Colombian history in...

This page is an article about the Pre-Colombian period of Panamanian History. "Prior to the Conquest of Central America, Mexico, and Peru, Great Civilizations in the Americas had developed high cultural values."

This page is an article taken from the "The Canal Zone Pilot". It contains information about the Pre-Colombian Period, as well as the Colonial Period.

This page is an article entitled "PANAMA'S Golden Huacas," taken from the Panama Canal Review, Fall 1973. "A clue to the mysteries of a vanished people who inhabited Panama during pre-Colombian times is found in the "golden huacas," the...

This page is a chapter from the book entitled "The Americans in Panama." It is an excellent narrative of both the Pre-Colombian and Colonial Periods of Panamanian history.

The Formative Period (1500 BCE-300 CE) of Mesoamerican culture is surveyed with an overview of the Olmec culture. Includes discussion of Olmec stone head sculpture, art, building, writing, and other achievements.

Link to Pre-Columbian Art through this resource. You can find information regarding their culture and specific works of art.

View photographs of pre-Columbian Maya architecture in the regions from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua.

This page is part of the web of the Costa Rica Information Center. It is an informative article about the Pre-Colombian Period of history. English available from the homepage.

Three caves containing pre-Columbian artifacts, murals, and hieroglyphs are documented in this report. Also of interest is commentary on the reports of modern Ch'ol Mayans with regard to ancient belief and current religious belief.

Provides an extensive guide to the history of Guatemala dating from Pre-Columbian times to the 21st century.

Explore the tremendous amount of information on the history of the Central American country of Honduras ranging from Pre-Columbian times to the present.

This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....

Learn about the full sweep of U.S. history at this comprehensive site based on a PBS series and telecourse. The series compresses several centuries of events, issues, and people in U.S. history into twenty-six half-hour programs. A team...

When Christopher Columbus discovered the New World he and his entourage brought with them not only the views of Europeans, but also diseases of Europeans. This was catastrophic to the natives in the Caribbean Islands and Meso-America as...

Mask, Andean Paracas culture of South America, pre-Columbian.

Learn about the art of the ancient Maya of central America and the Yucatan penincula in this overview and image gallery with individual artwork descriptions.

A learning module on the complexities of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered...

Erongaricuaro site was compared to neighboring site of Uricho in the Tarascan State to determine social organization and social hierarchy. Copper is a marker of high status.