A_3_00 — Egyptian African Mediterranean: Subfolder Summary

U_1_16 — Gamelan: Indonesian Bronze Orchestra Tradition

Gamelan — from the Javanese word gamel ("to hammer") — is the collective term for the bronze percussion orchestra traditions of Java, Bali, and neighboring Indonesian islands, representing one of the world's most acousti

U_1_00 — Music Sound Performance: Subfolder Summary

U_3_00 — Material Culture Craft: Subfolder Summary

U_5_00 — Art Society Analysis: Subfolder Summary

U_2_00 — Visual Arts: Subfolder Summary

U_4_00 — Sacred Symbolic Ritual: Subfolder Summary

X_2_00 — Mind Body Alternative: Subfolder Summary

X_5_00 — Specialized Modern: Subfolder Summary

X_1_00 — Traditional Ancient Medicine: Subfolder Summary

X_4_00 — Public Health Ethics: Subfolder Summary

X_3_00 — Surgical Clinical: Subfolder Summary

W_4_12 — Tiwanaku: Altiplano Civilization and Raised-Field Agriculture

Tiwanaku (also spelled Tiahuanaco) was a major pre-Columbian civilization centered at the site of the same name on the Bolivian Altiplano (high plateau), approximately 3,850 meters above sea level and 20 km southeast of

W_4_07 — Amazonian Traditions, Plant Teachers, and the Ayahuasca Complex

The Amazon Basin — the world's largest tropical rainforest — is home to approximately 400 indigenous groups with an extraordinary tradition of plant-based knowledge unmatched anywhere on Earth. At the center of this trad

W_4_04 — Mississippian Culture — Cahokia, Mound Builders, and the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex

Cahokia, located near present-day East St. Louis, Illinois, was the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico, reaching a peak population of 20,000 or more around 1050-1200 CE. The site features Monks Mound — the

W_4_02 — Polynesian Navigation and Rapa Nui

The Polynesian settlement of the Pacific Ocean — the largest migration in human prehistory — colonized virtually every inhabitable island across 16 million km² of open ocean using non-instrument navigation techniques of

W_4_06 — Dreamtime Songlines and Aboriginal Navigation

Songlines (also called dreaming tracks or song paths) are one of humanity's most extraordinary intellectual achievements — a vast network of songs that simultaneously encode mythological narrative, geographic navigation

W_4_05 — Iroquois Confederacy and the Great Law of Peace

The Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), commonly known as the Iroquois Confederacy, created one of the world's oldest continuous systems of participatory governance, uniting five — later six — nations under the Grea

W_4_13 — Aztec Empire: Tenochtitlan, Sacrifice, and Cosmovision

The Aztec Empire — more precisely the Mexica-led Triple Alliance (c. 1428–1521 CE) of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan — was the dominant political and military power in Mesoamerica at the time of the Spanish arrival.

W_4_09 — Indonesian Megalithic Living Traditions — Nias, Sumba, Toraja

Indonesia harbors what may be the world's most significant collection of living megalithic traditions — cultures that continue to quarry, transport, and erect massive stone monuments using methods broadly analogous to th