Resources & Links

Committee for Research and Exploration grantees are often affiliated with other Web sites or have personal favorites. Explore these sites to uncover more information on a given topic, or check out related features at nationalgeographic.com.

Anthropology

Andes Expedition @ nationalgeographic.com http://www.nationalgeographic.com/andes/
See a virtual autopsy of the mummy discovered on Johan Reinhard’s 1995 expedition to the Andes.

Contact! In the Amazon @ nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/contact/
Follow nationalgeographic.com to the Amazon as we make first contact with the Korubo tribe.

Ice Treasures of the Inca @ nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mummy/
Check out our feature on Johan Reinhard’s discovery of a frozen Inca mummy.

Dr. Johan Reinhard’s Journeys
http://www.mountain.org/reinhard/
Follow the work of Johan Reinhard at his personal Web site.

Jamestown Rediscovery
http://apva.org
This Association for the Preservation of Virginia site is recommended by the chief archaeologist of the 17th-century Jamestown settlement, William M. Kelso.

Paleoanthropology

Outpost @ nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/outpost/
Get involved in the search for human origins with Lee Berger.

Paleontology

Dinorama @ nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/dinorama/
Peer into the past with our interactive dinosaur time line.

Dinosaur Eggs @ nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/dinoeggs/
Watch fossil researchers as they “hatch” fossilized dinosaur eggs.

Dinosaur Dreaming
http://www.earth.monash.edu.au/dinodream/
Grantees Professor Patricia Vickers-Rich and Dr. Tom Rich direct us to a great site that tracks the work of the Victorian Dinosaur Research Project.

Gobi Desert Expedition
http://www.amnh.org/Research/Gobi/gobi.html
This American Museum of Natural History site is a favorite of Callum Ross.

Links to South African & Other Palaeontology Sites
http://www.ru.ac.za/pssa/pssalink.html
Callum Ross also suggests Dr. William de Klerk’s Web site as “a great place for paleontology links.”

Tree of Life
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
Another pick by Callum Ross, this Internet project contains information about the Earth’s diversity of organisms, their history, and their characteristics.

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