South America
The name of the South American mummy bundles
What are Paracas mummies
This Mesoamerican writing system is one of the few fully developed writing systems in the ancient Americas
What is Maya hieroglyphic writing
Collection of American art, Southwest, Mesoamerican, South American housed at UT
Language group spoken by 8-10 million people in South America
Quechua
This UNESCO World Heritage site in present-day Illinois was the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico
Geoglyphs etched in the sand in Peru
What are the Nazca Lines
Largest archaeological site in Guatemala
What is Tikal
This Mesoamerican group made massive stone heads
Who are the Olmec
Earliest known Maya writing was found at this site
What is the Las Pinturas pyramid complex at San Bartolo Guatemala
Cultural group from South America that has excellent preservation due to arid conditions - yielding textiles from around 900CE
Who are the Chimu
Name of the largest excavation done in Peru
What is Huanaco Pampa
Fermented honey wine drunk by the Maya in ritual and ceremonial contexts
What is balché
Mural depicting a Maya market and trade of goods including cacao and salt - the earliest dated mural of this kind
What are the Chiik Naab murals at Calakmul
Athabaskan language is spoken primarily in the American Southwest
What is Navajo
UT professor who was the youngest MacArthur Fellow
Who is David Stuart
What are the Chinchurro mummies
Type of intricately made lithic that resemble faces among other designs
What are eccentrics
This Northwest Coast art form often marks clan identity and ancestral beings
What are totem poles
Book containing Maya history and cosmology
What is the Popol Vuh
This architectural feature organized space and ceremony in Pueblo villages
What is a kiva
Cultural group who perform mortuary cannibalism to help with grieving lost loved ones
Who are the Wari
Name of the archaeologist that was struck by lightning and killed on top of Chichen Itza
Who is Dennis Puleston
Two prominent warrior groups that feature in sculpture and mural for the Mexica empire
Eagle and Jaguar warriors
Type of writing used primarily on ceremonial vessels in the Late Classic period
What are pseudoglyphs
Who is Dr. Valdez