Archeology of North and Central America.

During may stay in Utah and Mexico I begun to be interested in archeology of precolumbian cultures: Anasazi indians, ancient mexicans (Teotihuacan, Oaxaca, etc.).

Examples of precolumbian art.

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Reading from a Library

J. R. Ambler,- The Anasazi, prehistoric people of the four corners region, Museum of Northern Arizona, Northland Press, Flagstaff 1977

I. Barnol, R. Piña-Chan, F. Camara-Barbachano,- Tesoros del Museo Nacional de Antropologia de México, Daimon de México, 1979.

C. Burland, W. Forman,- Gods and fate in ancient Maxico, Panorama Editorial México 1980.

C. W. Ceram,- Der erste Amerikaner, das Rätsel des von-kolumbischen Indieners, Rowholt Verlag 1971, Ed. italiana, Il primo americano, Einaudi 1972.

A. E. Dittert Jr. , F. Plog,- Generations in clay, Pueblo pottery of the american southwest, Northland Press, Flagstaff 1980.

W. M. Ferguson, J. Q. Royce,- Maya Ruins of Mexico in colours, University of Oklahoma 1877.

J. Larrade de Sáeur,- Crónacas en barro y piedra, Arte prehispánica de México en la coleccion Sáeur, el periodo formativo, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Méxixo, 1986.

A. Romano, a cura di,- Museo Nazionale di Antopologia, Città del Messico, Mondadori 1970.

J. Soustelle,- La pensée cosmologique des anciens mexicains, Hermann 1940.

G. C. Vailant,- Atzecs of Mexico, Doubleday&Company inc. 1941, Ed. italiana, La civiltà atzeca, Einaudi 1970.

D. Watson,- Indians of the Mesa Verde, Mesa Verde Museum 1961.

Here some web sites on this topic.

http://sunsite.dcaa.unam.mx/antropol

http://www.mexonline.com/precolum.htm

http://www.swcolo.org/Tourism/ArcheologyHome.html

http://material-colture.com/AnasaziPotteryRestoration.html

http://www.indianpueblo.org/

http://www.collectorsguide.com/wingtoc.html