Mesoamerica - Tumblr Posts
Hun-Batz, the Mayan howler monkey God, major deity of the arts.
Sculpture of a seated warrior with two dogs. Veracruz, Mexico, 400-800 AD
Ceramic bowl with stucco, Teotihaucan, 200-750 AD
from Dumbarton Oaks
Really makes you think about how we perceive history and historical places especially. Because in truth a LOT of places like this that are centuries or even thousands of years old have had restorations sometime in the last 200 years or so. But in a way yeah that is just another layer of history to learn about (and from).
Even if u leave the places alone completely they’ll still decay and rust. They will never look exactly like they did in their time and that’s part of their charm! Like the history of the building or site itself is well… history of course.
American archaeologists, in cooperation with the Mexican government, reconstructed Chichen Itza according to the standards of the 1920s, which were not as painstaking as today's standards. Perhaps the biggest excavation job was the Temple of the Warrior, which was an overgrown mound when the archaeologists began. Here it is mid-excavation in 1925:
Over the next few years, masons worked to rebuild the temple as the archaeologists thought it should look:
By 1928, it looked like this:
Two sides of the famous "El Castillo" were similarly rebuilt.
The other half of it was left mostly unrestored:
Some observers think that Chichen Itza is a sham, a pseudo-historical confection constructed more to wow the tourists than to honor history (this website sums up the “it’s a fake!” argument pretty well).
But, like every site, Chichen Itza probably doesn’t have a “pure” or “authentic” state. It changed repeatedly over the years when it was one of the most important cities in Mesoamerica. It’s still changing today. The reconstruction in the 1920s certainly didn’t follow modern standards of archaeological precision. But now the changes of the 1920s are just another layer of history, laid on top of centuries more.
{WHF} {Ko-Fi} {Medium}
Burial in a vessel
In the pre-Hispanic era,it was customary to bury the deceased on the floors of the family's homes. Some of the mortuary remains, generally from secondary burials, were found in vessels.
Mural jade
Imagen serpiente bicéfala del Códice Vindobonensis. Two headed serpent from codex vindobonensis.
Dios de las Tormentas #museum #Antropologia #Teotihuacan #Mesoamerica #Tlaloc (en National Museum of Anthropology ())
Relacionado con el Tlaloc del postclásico, esta deidad se encuentra representada profusamente por Teotihuacan, en dos variantes: rojo y azul.
#Teotihuacan #Antropologia #Mesoamerica #Quetzalcoatl #Serpienteemplumada #Featheredserpent #love #History #Passion #Dayinamusseum #museum (en National Museum of Anthropology ())
Tlaloc, vasija. #Tlaloc #museum #mesoamerica #downtown #templomayor (en Templo Mayor)
Tlaloc, vasija. #Tlaloc #museum #mesoamerica #downtown #templomayor (en Templo Mayor)
#museum #mesoamerica #Xochicalco #mnah #mesoamerica #Quetzalcoatl #estela #stelae
Adoratorio a Ehecatl. C. 1400 d.C. Pequeño templo a Ehecatl-Quetzalcóatl, numen del viento, con su característica forma cilíndrica en la parte superior, para no impedir el movimiento del viento. Shrine to Ehecatl. C. 1400 A.D. Small temple to Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, wind numen, with its characteristic cylindrical shape at the top, to alow the free movement of the wind.
Monolito en la esquina sureste de la Plaza de la Luna #teotihuacan #plazadelaluna #monolitoplazadelaluna #mesoamerica #chalchihuitlicue
Limpia Neo Mesoamericana #cdmx2017 #centrohistorico #ritual #mesoamerica #pinturacorporal (en Centro Histórico (Ciudad De México))
#mayasellenguajedelabelleza #mayas #estela #mesoamerica #mnah #inah (en Museo Nacional de Antropología)
Lo cautivos mayas eran despojados de sus atributos de poder, se les ponían orejeras y tocado de trapo, se les representa atados con las manos a la espalda y con un lazo al cuello. #Mayaslenguajedelabelleza #mayas #Estela #tonina (en Museo Nacional de Antropología)
Perhaps the kind that started it all to lead up.
