books about the ancient cultures of the Americas

Below is a selection of books that will give you a background in understanding

the ancient cultures of Central and South America. Aztec, Inca, Maya,

Zapotec, Olmec and Toltec cultures flourished at various stages over the

past two millennia, and evidence is continually emerging of cultures long

before them in the same areas. As with ancient cultures around the world,

the later cultures often colonised the sacred centres of those before

the enigmatic lines and drawings on the Nazca Plain, Peru, to the magnificent

pyramids of the Maya, the history of civilisation in South and Central

America goes back many millennia, and new structures and even cities are

being discovered regularly as satellite imaging is used increasigly by