The World Display Jewelry : A Girl Walking Down The Street

The Maya were believed to existence in 1800 BC and gone by 1500 AD. They had a lot of big cities but no capital. Many of the people lived in hay huts, some in limestone buildings built on tall pyramids which could actually be used as landmarks. They have a constant reminder the gods are present with the pyramids and first one was built right before Christ birth. Their agriculture was based on the economy, there main crop was corn but also grew cotton, beans, squash and cocao. They hunted deer, duck, turkey, monkeys, iguana, and other things with bow and arrows, blowguns, darts to eat, they did a little fishing. The Mayan art was about politics, the

However, trading for beads provided Indigenous people with a new material. By using beads, Ruth Cuthand both provides a visual representation for colonialism, while also showing how Indigenous people and cultures have survived in spite of colonialism.

Architecture, the basis of life for the Mayans. Architecture, specifically regarding pyramids. Now, when we think of the word “pyramid” most people will automatically think of the Great Pyramids of Egypt (we’ll get to those). But the Mayans had just as pyramids just as great. See, the technical building of the Maya pyramid was the same as the Egyptians. Both civilizations had pyramids of their own architectural design; Egypt with the well-known triangle and the Mayans with staircases. The use of slaves would help rise the pyramids from the ground, stacking, piling, pulling, and layering stone and clay. The main difference

The Mayans were also were technologically advanced. They used their own math system. One dot stood for one, a bar symbolized five, and a shell figure was zero. The numbers were expressed vertically with the highest on top. The also created a very precise calendars. Two different calendars were calculated 260-day and a 365-day. They were able to calculate the dates because at noon time there was no shadow. This was important for them to use in predicting eclipses, scheduling religious ceremonies, and when to plant and harvest.

Jewelry also included necklaces (with charms and pendants), armlets, bracelets, leg bracelets and rings. Sometimes, as the Aztecs were religious, they carved the jewelry in to shapes of birds and reptiles. Bells were also found in their necklaces.

As a team, the goal of this presentation is to reveal to the class, how the Necklace can relate to modern day society. In order to understand and apply the reading to modern day society, we set the event to take place in court as an exaggeration to a situation that can be solved behind closed doors. By questioning the characters in the story, each will slowly reveal how the reading is applied to our everyday lives (such as modern day mentality, christian beliefs, and moral standards between friends).

The Mayan had an interesting daily life. The first Mayan settlements were in 1800B.C.. The height of the civilization lasted from 250 until 900. The women of the Maya usually wore blouses and long skirts. Farmers wore loincloths and capes.They invented the early version of the game basketball. Once every month the Mayan held a religious festival in the city.

The location where the mayans would stay are Belize,Guatemala,El Salvador (mesoamérica). This location was set to the mayans and only the mayans. The rich and powerful people were widely known as the Noblemen or Allmehen.The ceremonies often included giving the Gods such as corn, fruit, meat, or incense.They traded food and tools for supplies. Corn is the main crop because they were made out of the crop. They played a ball game (Pok a Tok)on a court. They made jade masks for celebrations, and to cover the faces of dead king and queens. This game would end up to sacrifices if you lost. These are the differences of the mayans compared to the Aztec and

Apache jewelry is very well know for it’s usage of very precious metals including silver, brass, gold, and platinum. They also are known to have used the bones and shells that they found. Apaches would make chokers out of bones they found. When they used silver they often engraved things into the metal. The symbols were usually important to their tribes. Another common jewelry is called the Apache tears, it is composed of a black obsidian or onyx. Dictionary.com states that the material obsidian means, “ A volcanic glass similar in composition to granite, usually dark buttransparent in thin pieces, and having a good conchoidal fracture.”

The Maya made small sculptures of clay and carved huge ones from stone. Some of the large sculptures stood over thirty feet high.( Voorhies 326) Early Classic stone sculpture usually features a single Maya ruler celebrating his reign.Many fine

The Classical Maya was lost to the archaeological records until the last 200 years due to it’s abandonment. When the Mayans left there great cities, thick vines and jungles overtook the great monuments they once built. But in the last 200 years, in depth research has lead to breakthroughs into what the Classic Maya was like. The earliest Mayans were agriculturalist, growing crops such as corn (maize), beans, squash and cassava. The Mayans also invented a very accurate calendar, a math code using 0’s, constructed buildings still intact today, and a writing system that took decades to decode. The Mayans were situated in one geographical block covering all of the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico), modern-day Guatemala, Belize, parts of the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas, and the western part of Honduras and El Salvador. Due to their location on the

Maya culture is one of the oldest and most intelligent tribal races. The flourishing period of Maya was between 300 and 900. The principal food in Maya was maize, which was also called “the maize culture”. They had no livestock such as sheep and horses. Also, they made the calendar and divided a year to 18 months. In addition, they built huge stone temples and held bloodletting ceremonies in order to sacrifice

Some of the most distinct features of Classic Mayan culture were the pyramids. The pyramids were either temples or

Over thousands of years, jewelry has been worn by many people. Whether to show beauty, wealth or belief there is no era that can compare to the jewels of Ancient Egypt. At the beginning of the kingdom, precious stones and metals were discovered and worn like never seen before. Unfortunately, the remaining Egyptian jewelry that is displayed in Museums today is only a small fraction of what actually existed due to grave robbers. Questions such as how jewelry started, how it was made and worn, what the symbolization of jewelry was and who were the people that wore jewelry in Ancient Egypt will be answered.

Copper was used in limited quantities for beads and simple tools, but most implements were knapped from stone. Palettes made of stone were used for grinding eye paint. Small sculptures and figurines were either carved from ivory and bone or modelled in clay.