Welcome to Cultures. This site is devoted to cultures, living and ancient, and the promotion of world communication and world peace. We are emphatically opposed to preemptive warfare and fervently believe that the United States cannot and should not go it alone in the world without its allies and friends. Bienvenue. Cultures est consacré à la promotion de la communication mondiale et de la paix mondiale. Nous sommes emphatiquement opposés à la guerre de préemption et croyons ardamment que les Etats-Unis ne peuvent pas et ne devraient pas agir indépendamment dans le monde sans ses alliés et amis. Featured topics at Cultures include the Amistad slave ship rebellion, the Hopi and their Anasazi ancestors, the Greek shrine of Dodona, the Muwekma Ohlone and their Pacific Islander cousins, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Timbuktu, Great Zimbabwe and Afropop. For Greek Mythology, see our sister site Mythweb. For the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica including the Olmec, Maya and Aztec, please visit Mesoweb. Except as otherwise noted, this site was written, edited, art directed and programmed by Joel Skidmore. Published by Fleet Gazelle. Real world location: San Francisco, California, USA. Email: joel@cultures.com (please leave "Cultures Mail" in the subject line to make it past the spam filter). Except as specifically noted, all text and images on this site are copyright 1993-2007 Fleet Gazelle. Please respect our copyrights and those of our collaborators. The image above is from a copyrighted photograph by Dale Hekhuis.