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Rainmakers From the Gods: Hopi Katsinam     Narrated museum catalog of the Hopi Katsinas, with many images and scholarly text. From Rainmakers from the Gods:Hopi Katsinam http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/katsina/

Potlatch     Gifting and Feasting in the Northwest Coast Potlatch. Narrated display of several items from the Peabody museum. From Gifting and Feasting in the Northwest Coast Potlatch http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/potlatch/

Bamboo masterworks     Japanese Baskets from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection. Here you will find a collection of 25 images from the exhibition, along with a detailed essay which should help provide some context and historical background to the work being presented. In addition, Energy and Strength in Balance: The Bamboo Basket Art of Fujinuma Noboru, an article by Robert Coffland, published initially in Orientations Magazine and reproduced here in full, examines the trajectory of a renowned post-war bamboo basket artist, Fujinuma Noboru whose works are on view at the Asia Society. From Asia Society - Arts & Culture http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/baskets/

American Indians and the Natural World     Through exploration of four different visions of living in and with the natural world - those of the Tlingit of the Northwest Coast, the Hopi of the Southwest, the Iroquois of the Northeast, and the Lakota of the Plains - North, South, East, West: American Indians and the Natural World examines the belief systems, philosophies, and practical knowledge that guide Indian peoples. From American Indians and the Natural World http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/

Images of the Maya     In the textiles of Chiapas, the Maya concepts of time, space, and the mythological forces of nature are interwoven. Through repeated cycles of birth and decline, conquest and revival, weaving has preserved the design of the Maya Universe From http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/maya/

Tsavo lions     In March 1898 the British started building a railway bridge over the Tsavo (SAH-vo) River in East Africa. Over the next nine months, two large male lions killed and ate nearly 140 railway workers. From The Tsavo Lions http://www.fmnh.org/exhibits/exhibit_sites/tsavo/default.htm

Collapse: why do civilizations fall?     Explore the collapse of four ancient civilizations in order to understand what awaits our own. Learn what happens when a society collapses and how archaeologists find and interpret evidence. From Exhibits Collection -- Collapse http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/

Ethnography of Lewis and Clark     Brief site displaying a handful of ethnographic objects collected by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, or Thomas Jefferson during the Corps of Discovery expedition. From ERROR http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Lewis_and_Clark/

Bolivia virtual field trip     Virtual trip to Bolivia, South America, organized as a pretend trip with a multi-day itinerary visiting various cities. Take a walk in the clouds. From snow capped Andean peaks to windswept plains to lush valley lowlands. Site helps promote CARE's efforts in the region. From ERROR http://www.careusa.org/vft/bolivia/

Mali virtual field trip     Virtual trip to Mali, Africa, organized as a pretend trip with a multi-day itinerary visiting various cities. The legendary city of Tombouctou sits at the crest of the mighty Niger River and anchors a string of towns and villages along its banks. Site helps promote CARE's efforts in the region. From ERROR http://www.careusa.org/vft/mali/

Tour of Chichéén Itzá     Hidden by the jungle for hundreds of years the great cities of the Maya are being reclaimed. Exactly why this civilization collapsed is still a mystery. One of the greatest of the Mayan sites and the most fully restored is the huge site of Chichen Itza. Come take a journey through this fascinating place From Tour of Chichen Itza http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/mayan/TourEntrance.html

Outpost: human origins     Join a team of scientists as they travel to Africa trying to study about the origins of human kind From Outpost: Human Origins @ nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/outpost/index.html

Mysteries of Catalhoyuk     Mysteries of the Catalhoyuk, the site of an ancient city in Turkey. Look at the pictures of burials, and discuss your findings in the bone lab. Explore why the dead were buried in the floor of the house where people used to leave, and find out what people were eating for dinner 10,000 years ago. From Mysteries of Çatalhöyük http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/catal/top.html

Origins and Ancient History of Wine     How Museum excavators uncovered the world's oldest wine jar and Museum scientists determined its contents. Find out why the grape remains ever popular - cloned over and over again from its ancient beginnings. Fermented beverages have been preferred over water throughout the ages: they are safer, provide psychotropic effects, and are more nutritious. Some have even said alcohol was the primary agent for the development of Western civilization, since more healthy individuals (even if inebriated much of the time) lived longer and had greater reproductive success. From “The Origins and Ancient History of Wine”@ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Wine/wineintro.html