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Olmec Head Emerging from the Ground in San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, 1950s [1081×1351]
Spiro Wooden Human Face Effigy with Deer Antlers. Le Flore County, Oklahoma, Spiro site. ca. 1200–1450 AD. - National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Gold beakers with faces. Lambayeque, Peru, 900-1100 AD [910x720]
Colima Emaciated Dog. West Mexico. ca. 300 BC-600 AD. - National Museum of the American Indian
Codex Mendoza online
https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx
Didn't see this posted before, but it's been live since 2015. Still maybe the best digital presentation of a pictorial codex to date? The 16th century Spanish glosses can be easily viewed in both Spanish and English.
The Sixth Sun an animated series in production
An artist friend of mine Abigail Roscoe, has been producing an absolutely stunning animated series based on Aztec mythology. Storyboards of each episode are going live in YouTube and they're BEAUTIFUL.
If this is something you want to see come to fruition, follow her work at coyote-studio.com. She unfortunately lost access to her Reddit account so I'm posting on her behalf, but I'm not actually involved.
I hope you enjoy.
Gold funerary mask with red paint. Peru, Lambayeque culture, 900-1100 AD [1130x930]
Kuntur Wasi (3000a.C) periodo Formativo centro ceremonial
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Kuntur Wasi (del quechua, "casa del cóndor") es un importante centro ceremonial preinca ubicado en la provincia de San Pablo, en el departamento de Cajamarca, Perú. Con una antigüedad de más de 3.000 años (aprox. 1100 a.C.), fue un templo escalonado famoso por albergar algunos de los trabajos en oro y orfebrería más antiguos de América
El centro ceremonial de Cajamarca, especialmente Kuntur Wasi, se caracteriza por una arquitectura monumental, ritual y escalonada, construida en piedra y organizada sobre plataformas y terrazas en una cima estratégica.
Rasgos principales:
Se levantó sobre la cima del cerro La Copa, en una posición elevada y dominante del paisaje.
Presentó una gran plataforma principal, acompañada por terrazas laterales, especialmente hacia el noroeste.
En su fase más importante, el complejo fue reconstruido como un nuevo conjunto ceremonial en forma de U.
Los pisos y recintos muestran uso de enlucidos, incluyendo cal blanca en la fase más temprana.
Hubo modificaciones posteriores, como renovación de canales de drenaje, lo que indica planificación técnica además de función ceremonial.
La Corona de las 14 caras, una pieza arqueológica de oro hallada en el sitio de Kuntur Wasi en Cajamarca, Perú.Fue elaborada entre el 1100 a.C. y el 100 a.C. por la cultura Cupisnique, influyendo posteriormente en la cultura Chavín.
Palenque, a medium-sized Mayan city in Chiapas, Mexico
Child’s Moccasins, Lakota Sioux, Late 19th-Early 20th [2828 x 2828]
Mapa de la civilización Norte chico la primera de América
La civilización Norte Chico, también conocida como Caral o Caral‑Supe, es la sociedad urbana más antigua conocida de América, desarrollada en la costa norte‑central del Perú entre aproximadamente 3500 y 1800 a. C.
Se desarrolló en los valles de los ríos Fortaleza, Pativilca, Supe y Huaura, en la actual costa norte‑central del Perú, lo que hoy se denomina región del “Norte Chico” de Lima.
Sus asentamientos monumentales más antiguos (como Huaricanga) se datan hacia 3500 a. C., y la fase de máximo esplendor urbano se extiende entre 3200 y 2200 a. C., con declive hacia 1800 a. C.
Page from the Codex Borbonicus, showing the god Tezcatlipoca and the plumed serpent Quetzalcoatl swallowing a man. Mexico, Aztec civilization, 16th century [1240x1106]
Earliest Americans specialized in megafauna hunting from Alaska to South America, analysis of 50 sites reveals
phys.orgHi! I’m part Yaqui, and really trying to learn more about/incorporate indigenous culture into my life
Any tips would be great tbh!
I feel a bit estranged of my Mexican and Yaqui roots, but especially my Yaqui roots.
I think it would be cool to learn the language sometime, I’ve heard they have books on how to learn Cahita.
Idk where to start 😅
How did non-literate societies perceive writing when they first encountered it?
Obviously, this is an extremely broad question, but I was hoping to get a few thoroughly explained examples of how such encounters usually went when people from societies without a writing system, or with a writing system too different from the one being introduced (such as the quipu), reacted to and perceived the newly introduced writing system. I was inspired to ask this after learning about how Atawallpa allegedly reacted to being given the Bible by the Spaniards before the ambush as an ultimatum, although I am not sure how accurate that story is. In any case, it is just one example, whereas I am looking for broader societal responses. How did these encounters generally go from the perspective of the societies encountering the new writing system?
Were Clovis foragers in Late Pleistocene North America big-game hunters, or just big-game scavengers?
phys.orgThe Mask of Calakmul a funerary mosaic mask created during the Maya Late Classic period, dating between 660 and 750 CE [1284x 1949]
The mask was discovered in 1984 inside Tomb 1 of Structure VII at the monumental archaeological site of Calakmul in Campeche, Mexico and is thought to be of Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' (also known as Jaguar Paw Smoke), one of the last prominent kings of the
city whose skeletal remains were nearby. Held at the Museo de Arquitectura Maya, Baluarte de la Soledad, Campeche, MEXICO