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Ancient Raised Field Agriculture- Applied Archaeology in the Bolivian Amazon
Includes links to related articles

Anthropology and Archaeology Pages
Sections include: Paleoanthropology ; Linguistics ; Archaeogeodesy ; Archaeology: The Andes, Mesoamerica, The Southwest, Rock Art.
Essays by James Q. Jacobs

Archaeology Research in Peru
"These pages contain full browseable text, abstracts, references, and selected graphics from archaeological research papers presented by Bruce Owen at academic conferences, plus a picture gallery of archaeological ceramics and other information."
Bruce Owen

Center for the Study of the First Americans
"The Center will continue with its established publication, research, and outreach programs at Texas A&M as well as initiate new projects and programs."
Sections include: Membership ; Faculty & Staff ; Facilities ; Research ; Education ; Publications ; Symposiums & Conferences ; CSFA Library ; Breaking News ; New Technology ; First American Studies ; Archaeology Trips & Digs.
- Texas A&M Dept. of Anthropology

• Mammoth Trumpet - (dead link) (ejournal)
  "...is the quarterly newspaper of the Center for the Study of the First Americans. It reports on research in all sciences pertaining to the study of the peopling of North and South America."

Functional Analysis of Flake Tools from Chiripa, Bolivia
"The present paper represents an attempt to formulate a methodology for studying the uses of prehistoric flake tools in the Formative and Post-Formative periods in the Titicaca Basin."
By Matthew Sebastian Bandy, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Geometry from the Land of the Incas
"A Peruvian site with Euclidean geometry problems involving circles and triangles, with proofs, animation and sound: Poncelet, Napoleon, Eyeball, Steiner, Carnot, Sangaku, Morley, Langley and the Butterfly Theorem. You can also investigate Inca Geometry (Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Incan Quipu, Nazca Lines, Lord of Sipan, Inca City on Mars?); and quotes from Descartes, Galileo, Newton, Pappus, Plato, PoincarÈ, Voltaire, and try some quizzes."
By Antonio Gutierrez

PBS NOVA Online - Ice Mummies
"...the companion Web site for the NOVA three-hour special "Ice Mummies" originally broadcast on November 24, 1998."
Sections include: Peruvian Expedition '96 ; The Iceman's Last Meal ; Unquiet Mummies ; Reading the Remains ; Resources ; Teacher's Guide ; Transcripts.

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Quipu
Dedicated to Researchers of Andean Archaeology
Sections include: Web Resources ; Academe ; Country Profiles ; Glossary ; Language Tools ; News ; Opportunities.
Maintained by Bruce Harley & Patricia Knobloch, San Diego State University

Titicaca Web Server Project Pages - (dead link)
University of California, Santa Barbara

• Ch'amak Pacha Archaeological Research Project - (dead link)
  Archaic and Preceramic Archaeology in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin
  Sections include: Documents ; Photo Archive ; Researchers.
• Pakara Archaeological Research Project - (dead link)
  Sections include: The Town of Pucar· ; Site Panoramas ; Regional Chronology ; Site Chronology ; Pukara Museum ; Previous Research at Pukara ; Pukara Bibliographies ; Proposals ; Geophysical Survey ; Photograph Archive.
• Proyecto Wiskachini - (dead link)
  Archaeological Research in the Lake Titicaca Basin
  Project Director: Cynthia Herhahn, PhD candidate in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Maintained by Mike Madin.
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