Mesoamerican Art: Mayan, Aztec, Olmec, Toltec etc
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Cat Malogen
Shows how long I’ve been out of any actual digging
1200AD is the supposed date of approx contact between Polynesians and South Americans, so we could go further and pick apart
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1200AD is the supposed date of approx contact between Polynesians and South Americans, so we could go further and pick apart
Native Americans and Polynesians Met Around 1200 A.D.
Genetic analysis of their modern descendants shows that people from the Pacific Islands and South America interacted long before Europeans arrived
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WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
A plurality of civilisations and worldviews creating Mesoamerican art is stating the obvious. Even Egyptian dynasties moved their focus to the Aten from a polytheistic pantheon relocating their entire capital, changed their minds, got subsumed into later Greco/eastern Mediterranean dynastic polities etc. Even had a pre-dynastic pharaoh named Wash 
Just because a long term overview might suggest stasis, the reality isn’t necessarily static eg Roman or christian art
Myths are too reductive in and of themselves to filter such a broad realm of artistic expressions too. Think of a vast dating chronology of timeframes needed, geographical scope/spread of cultures in the o.p. . Social organisation and social structures necessitate craft guilds, master craft workers, all the way to ’sweeping up‘, add the influence of religions, power brokers, feudalist competition, failed harvests
We think primarily about temple architecture, of big sites, yet the bulk of this material culture is tied to personal adornments. Grave goods can inform you about shifting designs and the geographical distribution of art styles as much as a civic or religious hub can
Isn’t there a thread on ‘geotrauma’ or a close approximation @version ? Can’t find the correct word search, as people’s first thought re anything Mesoamerican is mass blood letting
Just because a long term overview might suggest stasis, the reality isn’t necessarily static eg Roman or christian art
Myths are too reductive in and of themselves to filter such a broad realm of artistic expressions too. Think of a vast dating chronology of timeframes needed, geographical scope/spread of cultures in the o.p. . Social organisation and social structures necessitate craft guilds, master craft workers, all the way to ’sweeping up‘, add the influence of religions, power brokers, feudalist competition, failed harvests
We think primarily about temple architecture, of big sites, yet the bulk of this material culture is tied to personal adornments. Grave goods can inform you about shifting designs and the geographical distribution of art styles as much as a civic or religious hub can
Isn’t there a thread on ‘geotrauma’ or a close approximation @version ? Can’t find the correct word search, as people’s first thought re anything Mesoamerican is mass blood letting
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
And there’s always a t-shirt available to buy too
It's come up a few times, but there's no thread on it.
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WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Ta duck, the archivist strikes!
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
You could compare to rock art in the US southwest and even Utah
As northern neighbours some degree of porous co-relationship is present but tbh just googling the images and moving your screen focus in is probably much more fun than going down overtly narrow journal pieces
As northern neighbours some degree of porous co-relationship is present but tbh just googling the images and moving your screen focus in is probably much more fun than going down overtly narrow journal pieces
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
equally for a ‘good read’ with a few remarkable chapters comparing Olmec works local libraries might have
www.routledge.com
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