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Pre-Columbian art has many artifact, but one huge thing stood out to me. It was the stela. It a huge stone with details from all around. They were at least 10 feet long. One stela (Guatemala, Piedras Negras Maya, AD 758 Limestone) It had a craving of a ruler middle with his servant beneath him. “This monument celebrates the accession/seating of Ruler 5 of Piedras Negras” (Description). It was very detailed. Other minor thing that stood out were textiles, jewelry, mask, stone figure. One can conclude that pre columdian are very know for their stone

No ruins were as good as the Incas they cut stones with block fits exactly that nothing would fit between. The people were also hunters. They invented an advanced water system. They raised llama and alpaca for wool. These people were well known for their working metals. There greatest art was ceramic which had real and mythological features painted on them. These people believe in the sun god and nature god also did human sacrifice for religious purposes. The women just like the Aztecs watched over the kids and did house work; they also were healers and midwives. Their women were taught to be women at the age of 8 and 9, at this age some were sacrifice for the gods. There burials were like moneys but rapped in string then dressed, were the body was place vertically and things surrounded the body.

The artworks of Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, the Aegean cultures, and Ancient Greece have similarities that not only reflect objects and images, but also the media, style and representation. These countries were not always wealthy, clever, creative and powerful enough to gain supplies, but they all find a way to create art with what they had. They have all influenced on each other’s cultures and belief through their artistic values and ways, ranging from the materials and tools they use, position and representation of their monuments and their religious intent.

(Sources C and E) are about ‘Human Sacrifice’ and ‘Spanish Siege of Tenochtitlan’. They evidently show the Aztecs attention to detail to make the drawings look so realistic and lifelike. The two art pieces show age and a great deal of expression. The art looks alive, though, it is about death. This reflects the Aztecs desire to elude loss and

In 1500 C.E., the Inca Empire was the biggest, wealthiest civilization in Mesoamerica. They ruled over a diverse area of mountains and rainforest, some 2,500 miles in length. It is also one of the more well known civilizations. But did you know that there was a civilization considered a predecessor to the Inca? That civilization is Tiwanaku. The tiwanaku Empire started around 300 BCE and ended in 1000 CE. They were located near the west border of Bolivia. The artifacts that they had were pillars and stone structures where they think they had ceremonies. They also had small temples and altars.

The sculptural depiction of the Mayan ball court may be considered part of an iconographic system when analyzed as a symbolic as well as actual architectural setting. The Mayan ball game was an important cultural ritual with great religious and political significance. Like many sporting events, the game served as a proxy for and extension of war. The conflict within the game was reflective of the larger conflicts of war, often with similarly bloody results. This sort of overlap is common in Mayan belief and is often expressed in their art through what Miller and Houston have dubbed ‘resonance’. Resonance is the conflation, especially of text and image, to give a greater meaning to Mayan art than the sum of it’s basic parts through the extensive

In the Basin of Mexico about 7,000 ft above sea level lies the ruins of the ancient city of Teotihuacan, “the place of the gods,” which flourished from 100-650 A.D. Little is known about this city’s mysterious demise of power, besides evidence of what appears to be ritualized burnings at major temples and centers. The impact of Teotihuacan throughout Mesoamerica is evident, and the most obvious indicator of this influence is through artistic style. Just how far was the expansion of Teotihuacan’s artistic influence across Mesoamerica? I will use a variety of sources not only to define the Teotihuacano art style as a whole, but also to map the path of its successful impact, (and also resistance,) across subsequent Mesoamerican civilizations, focusing principally on the Maya.

Something I found particularly interesting in the “Mya Renaissance” video was the architecture that the Mayans created. The structures that they built were beautiful. The structures were the largest structures outside ancient Egypt at the time. It amazes me that they can build structures so vast without the equipment that we have today. It also is unbelievable that many of these structures are still standing today because of how well they were built. It was also interesting to me how the cities were laid out according to the cardinal directions of Mayan belief. The structures were created for specific events and used as markers for the Mayans. The “El Castillo pyramid at Chichen Itza” is particularly interesting because it catches the light

During the time of 1300 C.E. a civilization called the Incas began their lives in the range of the Andes Mountains. The Incas influenced and impacted the certain parts of the world with their way of living and the aspects that made them a unique culture. The Incas had various different cultures that were recognized as intelligent and creative. This civilization formed a very strong government which had a substantial impact on the types of governments following this one.

Who were the Inca? Little information pertaining to the Inca Empire has kept a significant aspect of Latin American history shrouded in mystery. With an estimated population of between 15-20 million inhabitants, the Inca should be viewed as prime example of what the Americas were like prior to the Spanish domination of their empire (Martin 41). This means an in depth understanding of whom the Inca are must be accomplish before understanding specific aspects of Inca culture. With so many aspects of the Inca Empire being undocumented, this paper will primarily focus on and give new insight into Inca music, a rarely discussed topic. The paper will see if music of the Inca lives on and how Inca customs have been radically altered from outside sources ranging from religious institutions, foreign nations, and slaves being brought over from Africa. Cultural influences have affected Inca music and have transformed their music into something it never was initially.

At its peak, the Inca Empire extended from current-day Quito in the north to current-day Santiago in the south, becoming the largest empire in the word at the time and remaining, to this day, the largest empire to have existed in the western hemisphere. The expansion of the empire came about quickly, with a single Inca credited with expanding the empire by 2,500 miles. It spread out 3,400 miles north to south, composed of about ten million subjects. Despite its large size, it had a smooth-running, complex system of administration. This raised the question that came to be known as the “Inca Paradox” — how could such an advanced and complex civilization not have had a writing system? Some scholars believe quipus, sets of knotted strings used by the Incas to record information, may provide the answer to this question. While the recording of numeral information by quipus has been widely accepted, and has so far not been contested, its possible recording of extra-numeral information has been the subject of debate. The theories concerning quipus center around the numeral versus the extra-numeral content of quipus and, more specifically in the latter category, whether they are a mnemonic device or an actual writing system. In this paper, I aim to analyze and compare the literary and archeological evidence used in support of different scholars’ theses as to the nature of the information contained in quipus.

Their culture was rich and fresh and still influences us today. In the ruins of the Incas they found a Silver Cup.This silver cup depicts a human head. Inca potters and smiths made many everyday objects that were decorated with pictures of humans and animals. They were usually stylized to have

All remnants of the distant past are romantic, but ancient Maya civilization has a special fascination. It is a "lost" civilization, whose secrets lie deep in the mysterious tropical forest. The style of Maya architecture and sculpture seems alien and bizarre.

The stunning prehistoric cave art at Altamira was decorated between 13,000 and 14,000 years ago. It was first discovered by Marcelino sanz de sautuola and his daughter Maria He tried to bring attention to the old art at Altamira, for its drawing of animals. The animals that were drawn were aurochs, horses, ibexes, and boar. The art features were so special; the uneven contours of the rock give the animals almost a three-dimensional presence. The animals pasture, the colors were mostly red and black, and the shading was also in colors which were yellow, brown, purple and white. The art was so powerfully the contemporaries thought the paintings were not authentic because of how well it was drawn. They believed someone else have drawn the art. They couldn’t grip that art existed in prehistory.

The period up to the late 15th century pre-Columbian art the indigenous cultures that were native to the land were created using very different mediums. Many of the remaining art work from this period that is perfectly preserved are those which were placed in stone, and rock. Although at the time a very wide verity was used which included painted textiles, headscarves surfaces, and rocks. In addition, murals, wood panels, and party much any other surface that could be painted with cultural meaning.