Pre Columbian American Astronomy

Ancient Astronomy
Clicking on an atlas brings up regional archaeoastronomy pages. Depth of coverage in Western Hemisphere varies widely.

Astronomy of Ancient Cultures
Includes sections on Inca, Maya, and North America.

Archaeoastronomy
A student written introduction with sections on North and Central America.

Inca Civilization
Not much (if any) astronomy, but a fair amount of background information. And some UFO junk.

Research in the Andes Mountains of Peru
Brief description of research, lots of irrelevant links.

New World Astronomy
Some notes about Maya and Inca, probably part of a history of astronomy course.

Die Maya-Handschrift Codex Dresdensis (In German)

Archaeoastronomy
From Lords of the Earth  Fairly detailed articles about astronomical references in Mesoamerican artifacts and writings.

Maya Astronomy
Several brief articles on knowledge and beliefs about parts of the sky.

The Material World - BBC
Interview with Clive Ruggles (Leicester University) and Frank Prendergast (Dublin Institute of Technology), mostly European focus but some Maya. Click on the "Listen Again" button for the audio, requires RealPlayer or equivalent.

Ethnoastronomy of the Lakota
A substantial site with plenty of links and an excellent bibliography.

Lakota Ethnoastronomy
Astronomy, cosmology, and the Sun Dance.

Archaeoastronomy
Undergrad paper focuses on the Anasazi. Plenty of references.

A Central Texas Sun Dagger
Press release about a paper presented to AAS in Austin.

1054 Supernova Petrograph
Well, maybe. Does anyone know what "Wait until the moon is in a position pointed to by the fingers of the hand." means?

The Ancient Maya
Brief astronomy section of a larger site.

The Aztec Calendar
Much calendar detail, some astronomy. In English and Spanish, the latter clearly the original.

Not yet reviewed:

http://www.viewzone.com/carving_cosmos.html

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/lakota.htm

http://www.tulane.edu/~anthro/other/archastro.html
I am not fond of the presentation of this one. No index, just a search function and some suggested keywords. May be a decent bibliography if you can work through it.

http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/archeoslides/index.html
http://www.traditionsofthesun.org/


Dead trees

Anthony Aveni, Stairways to the Stars, John Wiley & Sons, 1997.