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South America-Caribbean Web Resources

The Caribbean

 

South America

 

South American Lowlands

    Peopling of South America
    http://www.archaeology.org/9607/newsbriefs/brazil.html
    A cave in northern Brazil has yielded evidence that people migrating from North to South America some 11,000 years ago did not settle exclusively in the Andes.
     
    Plants of the Machiguenga
    http://manu.montana.com/
    In November, 1995, Dr. Ethan Russo, a neurologist, spent two months in Eastern Peru's rainforest looking for plants to treat headaches. You'll find photos of the plants he gathered here, along with botanical and medicinal information about them. You'll also find photos of birds, people and the rich forests of Peru.
     
    Electric Gallery's Amazon Project
    http://www.egallery.com/amazon.html
    Information about the Usko-Ayar Amazonian School of Painting, in which 700 youth indigenous to the Peruvian Amazon study art and produce beautiful, vivid, and often haunting images of their jungle surroundings.
     
    Prehispanic Raised Field Agriculture
    http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cerickso/applied.html
    Llanos de Moxos/Mojos raised fields. Applied Archaeology in
    the Bolivian Amazon.

 

Andean Archaeology

 

Chavin

 

Moche

 

Nasca

 

Chimu

 

Chachapoyas

 

Tiahuanaco

 

Huari

 

Pachacamac

Machu Picchu

 

Atahuallpa and Cajamarca

 
 
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