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TEACHERS RESOURCE CENTER:
The Aztec Ruins
National Monument Teacher's Guide is now accessible on the Internet. The
guide is targeted for fourth through seventh grades, but can be adapted for
other age groups. The collection of 15 illustrated lessons assists teachers
in using Aztec Ruins and its loaner trunk of replica artifacts as resources
to help teach students language arts, mathematics, science, social studies,
and art. http://www.nps.gov/azru/educ3.htm
http://www.nps.gov/azru/intro.pdf
http://www.nps.gov/azru/lesons.pdf
http://www.nps.gov/azru/resource.pdf
Archaeological Resources
for Education
Glossary of Archaeological Terms
Guide to Reference Sources on American Indians
How do Archeologist know where to dig?
Maps and Timelines for Prehistoric Cultures of The American Southwest
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology
Native American Art and Education Center (one of the best!)
The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150 - 1350
R.O.M. Fun Page for Kids (make a mummy and more)
Teachers Guide to Southwest Pottery -The Legacy of Generations
Yahoo's Guide to Anthropology and Archaeology
Native American Lesson
Units - Beading and Mimbres Pottery
Aboriginal & Navajo Places: Art History Narrative Lesson with
Art History Study Sheet
The
Legacy of Generations: Pottery of American Indian Women Teacher's Guide
Mimbres Pottery Exercise
Creating a Clay
Pot
PRESERVATION - LAWS AND REGULATIONS:
Federal Archaeology Laws and Regulations
Federal Preservation Forum
Guide To Cultural Resource Compliance
Keeper of the Treasures Tribal Preservation Program
Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)
Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979
Archaeological Laws - Western States
Archaeological Laws - Southwest
PAST (Protecting Archaeological Sites Today)
Repatriation and Reburial
Southwestern Materials Affected by NAGPRA
IN THE LAB:
Computerized Interactive Cultural Resource Inventory Training
Cultural and Environmental Resource Consultants, Inc.
Dispersing Aggregated Soils/Recovery of Organic Archaeological Materials
Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry
Luminescence Dating Basic Principles
Maps and Timelines for Prehistoric Cultures of The American Southwest
Oxidizable Carbon Ration Procedure for Dating Archaeological Features
Peabody Museum Southwestern Holdings
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology
MUSEUMS:
The Millicent Rogers Museum
Located in Taos, New Mexico, The Millicent Rogers Museum owns an extraordinary
collection of pottery by Maria and Julian Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo. This
collection is on permanent display at the museum.
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, one of four museums in the
Museum of New Mexico system, is a
premier repository of Native art and material culture and tells the stories of
the people of the Southwest from pre-history through contemporary art. Located
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the museum’s collection of Pueblo pottery
which
includes a significant collection of pottery by Maria Martinez and other San
Ildefonso potters is displayed in permanent and temporary exhibitions.
National Museum of The American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian, a unit of the Smithsonian
Institution, is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study,
and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native
Americans. Established by an act of Congress in 1989, the museum will open on
the National Mall in 2004.
Logan Museum: Ancient Cultures of the Southwest
The Logan Museum index provides direct access to all of the individual ancient Southwestern pottery types represented in the museum. Their pottery checklist is based on Harold S. Colton's Check List of Southwestern Pottery Types, published in 1965. Its purpose was to provide a breakdown of the many ancient types and to organize them into wares and series.
PREHISTORIC CULTURES:
ANASAZI
Indian Ruins of the SouthwestRIO GRANDE
AZTEC - SALMON RUINS
TUSAYAN DISTRICT
KAYENTA DISTRICT
VIRGIN DISTRICT
HOHOKAM -Hohokam were prehistoric Indians who lived and farmed around the Gila and Salt River or Phoenix Basin area between 300 BC and 1400 AD. They settled in the southern and eastern portions of Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and northern Mexico.
SNAKETOWN
MOGOLLON -Mogollon people were spread throughout the mountains of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico from the heights of south central New Mexico. They were prehistoric farmers and lived in pithouse villages in forests and upland meadows of those mountains. The name Mogollon came from the Mogollon Mountains, the center of this culture. Mogollon culture might have started around 250 BC and ended around 1450 AD.
MIMBRES -
Mimbres people flourished in southwestern New Mexico from 1000 to 1130 AD. The center of Mimbres culture was the Mimbres River in southwestern New Mexico. They were known for their ceramics including beautifully painted ceremonial bowls. Classic Mimbres pottery is a black on white pottery with geometric and pictorial design. It rivals other prehistoric pottery in beauty and vitality. There were a variety of motifs used on the pottery. They frequently used triangles and circles. Diamonds, squares, crosses, and spirals were also used with the combination of fine and consistent lines. Those designs were complicated but balanced, and were considered to have some cultural meanings. For example, curvilinear and spiral designs might represent water.
They also used remarkably stylized images of animal and human figures showing a direct relationship between their life and their religion. They used mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, frogs, rabbits, turtles, bats, and birds as motifs. The human figure designs included a variety of activities in everyday life. Other human figure designs included ceremonial and mythical scenes. Mimbres pottery often accompanied the dead and the pots were “killed” with small holes punched through the bottom to symbolically release the spirits of the painted figure
MIMBRES SITE STUDY - Very good photos and info.
CASA GRANDE
FORESTDALE
JORNADA
MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY
Trademarked one-of-a-kind pottery and effigy figures dedicated to the ancient Native American cultures of the Mississippi River valley, the Caddo, Quapaw, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Osage.
ROCK ART:
Archaeology Plus - Great Rock Art Site featuring tours and information
American Rock Art Research Association
Petroglyphs and Rock Paintings
Upper Midwest Rock Art Research
Association
GREAT LINKS TO THE PAST:
National Museum of the American Indian
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology
ArchNet WWW Virtual Library for Archaeology
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