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

This website contains over 100 images of Mesoamerican art categorized by culture. Includes brief explanations of each item.

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.

The Kingdom of Chimu flourished in the Moche River Valley until conquered by the Inca. Their massive adobe architecture is the only reminder of the might of the Chimu kings. View pictures and descriptions of their architecture, jewelry,...

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...

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

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 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."

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students explore and examine primary source material to answer a question about Incan Emperor, Atahualpa's meeting with Spanish conquistador, Pizarro. Includes downloadable lesson plan,...

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

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

Wesleyan University presents the introduction to the site "Unaahil B'aak: The Temples of Palenque". Here the Mayan ruins which are the Palenque archeological site are introduced.

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.

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,...

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

Nasca culture flourished on the coastal plain of southern Peru between 200 B.C.E. and 600 C.E. Read and view pictures about their art, specifically geoglyphs and pottery, in this essay.

Essay on the development of early indigenous tribes in the Americas. Author discusses how tribal culture developed in South America prior to Columbus.

This museum site brings you lessons having to do with Mayan culture.

Detailed lesson plan that uses primary sources to help students learn about the people of California from pre-Columbian times to the Mexican rancho periods.

Spanish content; this article looks at prehispanic pottery and ceramic work from cultures in the region of Argentina.

The Anasazi, the "ancient ones," were an important group among the early Southwest Indians. Read a description of their culture, housing, arts, and possible reasons for their disappearance.

The Paracas achievements in ceramic and textile arts are among the most outstanding in the ancient Americas. View pictures and read descriptions of Paracas art and culture.

This site from ibiblio.org includes a picture and short description of the Mexican calendar, a picture and description of the professions of the Tarascan peoples, and a map and description of the ownership rights of land after the...