Ruins of Palenque, Maya
Statue at La Venta, an ancient Olmec city occupied between 900-400 BC.
Teotihuacán.The Aztecs found this place after it had been abandoned for centuries. They were amazed with it and moved in. We know very little about the culture that built it: historical mystery.
Incan llama figurine
Stone drinking cup, 763AD–820AD, Maya, travertine and cinnabar
Sculpture at Tula, capital city of the Toltec Empire, 950-1150 AD
Xochipilli, the God of tripping balls. Also of all flowers.
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>>4573061Hehe, that is really coolPyramid of the Magician at Uxmal (Maya).
Fun Nahua related resources:>Spanish/Náhuatl online translatorhttps://gdn.iib.unam.mx/>General fun factshttps://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/>Aztec calendar "horoscope"https://www.azteccalendar.com/
Stone head at the Maya ruins of Copán
The unexcavated Great Pyramid at Cholula. It's the whole "hill", about twice as tall as Chichen Itza! The church stops them from excavating it. More than 100,000 people lived in Cholula at its peak. The pyramid was built around 900 AD.
>>4573005Haven't seen this pic. That's beautiful.
>>4575105Ahh, this is great! Are there more from this set at cholula? What's the source?>>4573061I love him. Would that particular statue have been painted?
>>4575127Oh by the way this one's out of date. We know what the numbers in the top right of the far left page are supposed to be.
>>4575132>Would that particular statue have been painted?I wouldn't know. It was downloaded from a museum set, Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. I've forgotten the website, but you have enough info you might be able to find it. I have other shots of poorer quality of the same statue from different angles, but I see no evidence of any residual paint anywhere. So, my guess is probably not this statue, but I'm no expert. And, other statues may have been.
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>>4575223This one is a different statue. Not certain what's going on here. It's so identical it's spooky, but obviously different damage. Might be a modern concrete casting? Anyway, it looks more weathered. I mention that because if the original statue was outside in the elements, if it had been painted then 900 or 1200 years of exposure could possibly have removed all traces of paint.I originally saved these pix because Xochipilli was being represented as the god of flowers, but more specifically some of the psychedelic flowers like datura and morning glory. Also, technically, mushrooms have been considered to be "flowers" under certain circumstances. I'm not an anthropology or religion expert, more of an advanced hobbyist, so I can't get to deep into this shit with any authority.I like pretty colors?
>>4575224Last one I've got. It's a modern day mural depiction ... so I have no opinion on what liberties were taken here. Why a woman? Why a snake?I wish I could return to university and spend years studying this shit for an advanced degree.
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>>4575132It's an old CD "Mayan & Aztec Ruins" https://archive.org/details/corel33There are more. Tunnel entrance
Head
Relief of serpents
Altar
Altar pit
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>>4575105That's not right, it's way older and was built in stages. It's actually the largest pyramid in the world by volume. Shit's enormous
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>>4576308>>4576309Wow, that's amazing
Carved bottle, 600AD–800AD, Maya, blackware ceramic
>>4572994ooh I have A LOT of good pics for this subject.
>>4576545WTF do you have a huge collection of images with good file names like that?Are you me?
Please Bump the Egypt thread>>4532018
Double-Headed Jaguar sculpture. Maya Lowlands, Maya, circa 500-800 AD
Standing Male Figure. Mexico, Colima, shaft tomb culture, 200 B.C. - A.D. 500
“Axe god” Pendant. Costa Rica, date unknown, made from jadeite
“Xantil” Incense Burner Effigy Lid. Mexico, Veracruz, Puebla, or Oaxaca, Mixteca-Puebla style, 1200 - 1521 AD
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1,000-Year-Old Psychedelic Drug Kit Contains Traces of Cocaine and Ayahuasca
1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet, from El Perú-Waka', Petén, Guatemala
2 faced head, veracruz
3 centimeter gold bead shaped like a head. Peru, Moche culture, 390–450 AD
1524 Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan, 1524
>>4576975Whoa. Those n words had action figures!
>>4577028*Spaceman* ,, action figures.
>>4576946>>4576947These are awesome, thank you.Unfortunately I don't have many pictures. But I've copied the act of good filenames from you, if you're the guy from the Egypt thread.Kneeling lord with incised toad on his head, 900–500 BC, Middle Formative, Olmec style, Stone with red pigment
>>4576946>>4576947>>4577111I'm gonna try to bump this thread indefinitely. You've all converted me into an archiver(?). I was only able to post the Tezcatlipoca >>4573577 but hope to find more treasures to share. Any tips on finding the best of the best images? I am going look through this tomorrow>It's an old CD "Mayan & Aztec Ruins" >https://archive.org/details/corel33as provided by >>4575484 . There appear to be dozens of other ISO files from the "corel33" uploader that are not limited to Pre-Columbian civilizations.
>>4577149Welcome to the CD enlightenmentThere's so much awesome stuff
>>4577149>>4577786And for great photos with lots of information, I like to go to museum websites. The Princeton Museum has a good interface, and wide array of times and cultures (not just from the Americas). The British Museum is also good, but isn't as good for browsing. But there are loads of good museums: Met, Louvre, Smithsonian, etc.
>>4577111hahahaha yeah I'm the guy from the Egypt oneand also this one >>4512486>>4577149I lurk on reddit on /artifactporn/ and in other subreddits. But I never interact because I don't like redditors. And then I download the photos because I'm paranoid that I won't be able to find them again.But I've been doing this for years. I also like to browse archive.org for old books and stuff.I need to check those CDs.
A 1200-year-old painted Zapotec effigy pot, found in a tomb in Oaxaca, Mexico
A bead from a Moche gold necklace, 300–390 AD, Peru
A cape. Mexico, early 1800s
A Colima sleeping dog, protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE-250 CE. From Mexico
A colossal Aztec serpents head made from volcanic rock. Late Postclassic (1325-1521 AD)
A funerary urn from Oaxaca, Mexico. Zapotec culture, 350-500 AD, now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art
A gold frog pendant from Peru. Moche Culture, 3rd-8th Century CE
A gold nose ornament in the form of a spider. Lambayeque culture, c. 750-1375 CE, now housed at the Brüning Museum in Peru
A human skull decorated with a polychromic mosaic, Mixtec-Aztec, Mexico, 1300-1521 A.D.
A Kisin, a Mayan death god, 600-900 AD, is displayed at the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin; Markus Schreiber
A Maya carving of a frog from Topoxte. 700–800 CE, shell and quartz
A Maya ceramic figure with bird mask. 550–900 CE, now on display at the Museo de Sitio de Palenque Alberto Ruz LHuillier, Mexico
A Maya cylinder vase with spider monkeys. Belize or Guatemala, 650-750 CE, now housed at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Canada
A Maya mosaic mask from the Temple XVIII-A (250–450 CE). This mask is the earliest one discovered in an elite tomb in Palenque.
>>4577111reminds me of el danzante statue from olmec, this is not it but also similar
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A Maya painted vessel with a water bird. Late Classic Period, 550–950 CE, sold at Sotheby's in 2019
A Maya vase from the Guatemalan Highlands, dates from 600–900 CE.
A Mayan Jade Mask, 600s AD.
A Mesoamerican wheeled toy (probably Mayan)
A Mixtec-Aztec human skull decorated with a polychromic mosaic c. 1300-1521 AD. 14.5 cm high
A Moche ceramic ceremonial vessel that represents a fellatio scene. 1-800 AD, now on display at the Larco Museum in Lima, Peru
A mosaic figure found in tomb No. 6 within Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Moon in Mexico
A painted ceramic bottle with a stirrup-neck handle representing a priest in prayer. Moche Culture, 300-400 CE
A painted ceramic flask found in a 1,200-year-old Wari tomb in 2013, Peru
A painted funerary urn dedicated to the Zapotec rain god Cocijo, from Monte Alban, Oaxaca. Now on display at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City
>>4577922This is the shit from Indiana Jones.
>>4578521This got me thinking about who invented blowjobs, but I bet they discover themselves you know?
>>4578547What was first the kiss or the blowjob?
>>4578553Def BJ. Monkeys fuck mouths accidentally on purpose
>>4578556You know, I never even considered something like that. A true revelation, thank you.
A sexually active inhabitant of the underworld, Moche Culture, Peru, 1-800AD
A Shell Trumpet, made and decorated by the Chupícuaro culture, AD 300–900 , Guanajuato State, Mexico.
A shirt owned by The Runner, brother of Chief Carry the Kettle. Saskatchewan, Canada, Nakoda culture, 1908
A small ivory sculpture of a polar bear found on Igloolik Island. Middle Dorset period, 1st-6th century CE
A statue of Huehuetéotl, the aged god of fire of the prehispanic pantheon. Now on n display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City
A terracotta statuette made by the Chupícuaro people from Mexico. 5th-2nd century BC, now on display at the Quai Branly museum in Paris
A Tsimshian wooden mask representing the spirit of the Upper Air. 19th century AD, from British Columbia, Canada
A turquoise tablet depicting codex-like figures. Found in Chéve Cave, Oaxaca. Mixtec. 1250-1500 AD
A very rare terracotta statue of a priestess with a flayed human arm tied with ribbons to her headdress (600-900 AD), Veracruz.
A Wari tapestry panel from Peru. 600-1000 CE, now housed at the Brooklyn Museum
> >>4576976 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-1OgNqBkVE eating chocolate cake in a bag
A Yup’ik Humanoid mask, mouth of Yukon river, Alaska
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Abstract figure of an owl. Ecuador, Valdivia culture, 3500-1500 BC
Acrobat Effigy Stirrup Spout Vessel. Peru, Chavin, 900-200 BC
Acrobat figure. Mexico, Colima, shaft tomb culture, 200 B.C. - A.D. 500
Adorned Mexica skull mask, found at Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlán 14th century AD
Aerial photo of the Great Pyramid of Cholula. Nearly twice as large as the Khufu pyramid in Giza 90 to 600 AD. Puebla, Mexico
Aerial view of the ruins at Tzintzuntzan, Michoacan, Mexico Postclassic period
An altar of Mictlantecuhtli (god of death). El Zapotal, Veracruz, Mexico. Remojadas culture. 300 AD to 900 AD
An Aztec 9-inch-tall jade figure of Xolotl (god of fire and lightning and a soul-guide for the dead) with inlays of coral in the mouth. 1500–1520
Human figure vessel, 200 BC - 800 AD, Zapotec, pottery, found in Oaxaca
An Aztec bird mask (probably a raven), worn by a priest embodying Ehecatl,the god of wind, during a ceremony. C.1320-1521 CE
An Aztec skull mask with flint knife. 14th-16th century CE, now on display at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City
Stone figure at Tula, Toltec
An erotic pre-Columbian figurine from the Tairona culture, using the Tumbaga technique. In the collection of the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach, Florida
Lintel 15, Monuments of Yaxchilan.
>>4577832ancient onions face
An hacha (axe) from Mexico depicting a person with a mustache. May have been used as ballgame markers
An Inca gold figurine from the Andes, likely Ecuador or Peru, 1400-1530s.
Ancestral Figure. Colombia, Tairona, 1000-1550 AD
>>4573005>Teotihuacán.>The Aztecs found this place after it had been abandoned for centuries. They were amazed with it and moved in. We know very little about the culture that built it: historical mystery. It was pre-Flood.
Teotihuacán
Ancient West Mexico, sitting figure
Andean Textile Fragment. Peru, Ica 16th century colonial
Anthropomorphic gold pendant, Tairona culture (Colombia Peru), 1000 - 1500, from Dumbarton Oaks Museum.
>>4582015Lmao, no. The oldest bits aren't even pre-Roman.
Anthropomorphic Jar. Peru, South Coast, Nasca, 100 B.C. - A.D. 600
I've got some good angles
This is a really outstanding thread. Thanks
Anthropomorphic Tripod Vessel. Mexico, Jalisco, shaft tomb culture, 200 B.C. - A.D. 500
Anthropomorphic Tubular Duct Flute. Mexico, Colima, shaft tomb culture, 300 BC - 200 AD
Anthropomorphic Tubular Duct Flute. Mexico, Tabasco or Veracruz, 600-900 AD
Anthropomorphic Urn. Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec, A.D. 900-1300
Macchu Picchu, Peru
Anthropomorphic Vessel. Mexico, Colima, shaft tomb culture, 200 B.C. - A.D. 500
Armadillo Effigy Vessel. Mexico, Colima, shaft tomb culture, 300 BC - 300 AD
Avian Effigy Vessel. Ecuador, Chorrera, 800-400 BC
Avian Pendant with Flower Diadem. Guatemala, Southern Lowlands, Maya, 250-450
Aztec Cholula-Style Dishware
Aztec Double-Headed Serpent (ca. 1400 to 1500)
Aztec mask, 1400-1521
Aztec mask, maybe Tlaloc, 1350–1521, Wood, turquoise, shell, lignite and resin
Aztec skeletal mask, wood, ca. 1400-1521
Aztec statue of Coatlicue, the earth goddess from the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City
Aztec Stone of the Sun, Tenochtitlan, 1500 CE.
Aztec turquoise mosaic mask of Quetzalcoatl, 1400-1521, Mexico
Aztec wood mask. Mexico. 1400-1521 AD
Mesoamerican history nerd from other boards, i'll try to dump some stuff and reply to what's been posted already with clarification and corrections in the next few days
Codex Zouche-Nuttall, one of the few remaining Mixtec books, which traces the lineage of royal mixtec families as well as the rise of 8-Deer. The surviving Mixtec manuscripts are written in this sort of pictographic format, (unlike Maya writing, Zapotec writing, etc. etc.)https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/722151
Ballgame Performer. Mexico, Colima or Jalisco, shaft tomb culture, 100 BC - 300 AD
Ballplayer Figure in Costume. Guatemala, Northern Petén region, Maya, 550-850
Ballplayer Figure made from jadeite. Mexico, Gulf Coast, Olmec, 900-600 BC
Coatlicue, also known as Teteoinan, "The Mother of Gods", is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war. She is also known as Toci (Tocî, "our grandmother") and Cihuacoatl (Cihuācōhuātl, "the lady of the serpent"), the patron of women who die in childbirth.The word "Coatlicue" is Nahuatl for "the one with the skirt of serpents". She is referred to variously by the epithets "Mother Goddess of the Earth who gives birth to all celestial things", "Goddess of Fire and Fertility", "Goddess of Life, Death and Rebirth", and "Mother of the Southern Stars".She is represented as a woman wearing a skirt of writhing snakes and a necklace made of human hearts, hands and skulls. Her feet and hands are adorned with claws (for digging graves) and her breasts are depicted as hanging flaccid from nursing. Coatlicue keeps on her chest the hands, hearts and skulls of her children so they can be purified in their mother's chest. Her face is formed by two facing serpents, referring to the duality of her nature.
Wandering around mexico is literally like walking around a post-apocalypic wasteland.
>>4588701It's literally like "the world that was" from warhammer--- the period that followed 1492 marked a huge upheaval across the entire western hemisphere with every major civilization destroyed in the great incursion.Nothing survived, not the culture, not the history, not the people. Nothing remains from the world-that-was.
Colca Valley in southern Peru.Why doesn't someone put those terraces to good use?
Classic painting of Tenochtitlan.
>>4588713>YEARS IN THE FUTURE,
>BUT NOT MANY...
>>4588701>>4588703
Basalt Mask. Mexico, Guerrero, Mezcala culture, 500 B.C. - A.D. 100
>>4588703You should read about Cabeza de Vaca's (A Land So Strange by Andrés Résendez). He and three other men (including an African guy named Estebanico) were the only survivors of the 1528 Narváez expedition to North America. They travelled on foot for 8 years across the continent. At one point they were enslaved by natives - eventually they became traveling medicine men healers, receiving good hospitality as they passed between countless tribes. Eventually they came in contact with spaniards again and returned to "civilization". Cabeza de Vaca wrote a famous account La Relación y Commentarios about his journey, where he talks about all the native groups and their customs. This is precious because it's before native population across the continent was devastated by disease and encounters with Europeans.
>>4589363What's the best translation?
Basalt metate, a tool for grinding grains, with birds head design. Costa Rica, 300-700 AD
>>4577829I like the bird
This isn't precolumbian, but it's a new maya stele that was erected in 2012. Decipherment of the maya script is ongoing, but there has been work on adapting it to modern maya languages so it can be used today. By adapting I mean adding things like diacritics to represent new sounds that didn't exist in the old maya script. One such diacritic is visible on the second glyph block from the bottom in the third column over--- there's a little squiggle in the top right corner of the bottom left glyph--- that's a diacritic. By the way, the glyph block above that one, (the third from the bottom of the third column over), says ka-si-ti-la-na or "kastilan" or spaniard.
>>4590999There's a backside but my photo isn't high-res enough lol
board's moving fast these days. bomp
>>4579613Loved this piece so I tried to remove the logos and upscale with some easy AI, thought I'd share
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Figure, 2nd-4th century A.D., made of walrus ivory, found in the Punuk Islands, Alaska
>>4592604>>4579613It is some incredible work. I can only imagine how much more there was like this.I can't believe an entire world of that stuff was destroyed. I never get over the staggering feeling of what there must have been, you can just feel the weight of the void in the historical record from what was there just centuries ago.>>4590999here's another example of that same sort of diacritic used for the ra re ri ro ruPersonally I'm not a fan, they should have just come up with something else. New symbols or something, or better diacritics.
>>4592860Oh dang, the third and second panel are in the wrong order, whatever.
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"Some 1,600 years ago, the Temple of the Night Sun was a blood-red beacon visible for miles and adorned with giant masks of the Maya sun god as a shark, blood drinker, and jaguar."
some kind of... chair.. with writing all over it
Was writing primarily a religious activity to the Maya and Aztecs? A script system that complex reflects no respect for accessibility or efficiency.
Mayapan city "the last great Mayan capital"
>>4595039>Was writing primarily a religious activity to the Maya and Aztecs? A script system that complex reflects no respect for accessibility or efficiency.Not at all. There were simplified versions of the glyphs that are much quicker to write, it's about has fast to read/write as japanese. It's the coolest script humans have ever created.
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>>4577995This is the same painting! My scan of this full pic is terrible but I still want to share it!
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>>4577795>tfw u wake up hungover
replica of a bonampak maya mural
>>4602217huh, why didn't this bump the thread, are we autosaging for some reason?If so a shame, there was a lot I was wanting to post and dump
modern people don't createcool objects like this; DO they?
El. Bumpo.I'm too autistic to let this thread die.
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>>4605195I got you anon
Basin with feathered serpent. Central Mexico. Teotihuacan style. 400-550 CE
Bat Pendant made from shell with Outstretched Wings with Openwork Design. Colombia, Tairona, 1000-1550 AD
Battered Warrior Figure. Mexico, Veracruz, Remojadas, 600-900 AD
Beaker. Peru, Middle Nasca, A.D. 200-300
Blackware Vessel. Peru, Recuay, 1-650 AD
Bottle in the shape of a feline, Wari (Peru), A.D. 600–900
Replica of "Montezuma's headdress" located in Mexico City's National Museum of AnthropologyIt wasn't actually Montezuma's, and it was originally curved rather then flat, like Great Plain Indian's war bonnets, and also had a gold beak attached before an improper restoration lost bits of it and flattened itI'll dump more info latter
>>4607471I had no idea about the curvature of the thing. The beak shape makes perfect sense! Never heard about that.God dammit why don't they mock up a replica of the thing!?
>>4575226maybe it's because the moon and women have a common thing with fertility. Possible that they use a lunar calendar to grow crop and find specific flowers through lunar cycles.
>>4609213Outside of Semitic culture, most cultures associate snakes with rebirth because of their molting. Snakes + woman + moon = endless birth and rebirth.
>>4604355> Pre-Columbianpost columbian
>>4609590Cretans also had a snake goddess, statues of whom could be found in small caves with effigy offerings. Snakes were also often associated with caves in many places, with caves representing a womb. Mesoamerican myths often involve humanity emerging from caves
view from inca trail to sun gate machu picchu peru
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>>4588723>>4588727Tenochtitlan - Looking Southeast 1519based on Velasco's valley of mexico
>>4576973Tikal
>>4578518From Calakmul. Displayed in the Museum of Mayan Architecture in Campeche
>>4605084Hmm looks like an item from the Mayan World Museum in Merida
>>4573464Today there is some stupid low barrier around the temple and visitors are not allowed to climb it (nor any others in Uxmal). Same in Chichen Itza. Fortunately not so in Calakmul and much of Palenque.Amazing thread btw
>>4577829Imagine being a shaman in 550 AD and your patron god gives you a vision of the Pepe
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Bottle with Sharp Shoulders with Incised Design. Mexico, Tlatilco, 1200-900 BC
Bottle, Caddoan, 1200-1400 AD
Bowl Depicting Otherworldly Monkey and Peccary. Guatemala, Northern Petén, Maya , 650-800
Bowl with decorated scene. Mexico, Campeche, Maya, 550 AD -850 AD
Bowl with Flower Motif. Ecuador, 300 BC - 700 AD
Bowl with human face. Mexico, Guanajuato, Chupícuaro, 300 BC - 100 AD
Bowl with Images of Humans with Bundled Offerings. Guatemala Highlands, Maya, 600-900 AD
Bowl with painted cat. Peru, Paracas culture, 500-400 BC
Bowl with parrot design, Hopi archaeological tradition
Bowl. Peru, South Coast, Nasca, 100 B.C - A.D. 600
Bridge and Spouted Double Vessel with Monkey. Peru, Chimú, A.D. 900-1430
Burial of a woman at Teotihuacan with a jadeite tooth that was cemented or attached with fiber to her mandible. 350 to 450 AD. Mexico
>>4620056 eye know, Right?
>>4587457Unironically, this is a depiction of satan.I won't spam your thread with this, but if you're interested, here's some .zips with hundreds of relevant images:https://files.catbox.moe/r60yle.ziphttps://files.catbox.moe/3r8utq.zip
Burial Urn with traces of white ground and yellow pigment. Colombia, lower Magdalena River, Moskito, 1000 AD - 1600 AD
Burial Urn. Colombia, Chimila, 1000 AD - 1500 AD
What happened in Toltec history where the Aztecs were so terrified of the changing of the times that they did that much human sacrifice? Or was it more specific to them, because the Maya didn't do it as much? Was their exodus from the Mojave so harrowing? Or was it just a natural consequence of urbanization and population booming, considering Plains Indians didn't do it nearly as much?
Burial Urn. Guatemala, Quiché, 550 AD - 850 AD
Canteen-shaped bottle. Peru. Nazca or Huari. 600 AD - 800 AD
Captive Figure. Volcanic stone. Costa Rica, 900 AD - 1200 AD
