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Pretty Ladies is the name archaeologists gave to pre-Columbian female figurines in Mexico, from the Chupícuaro, Michoacan, and Tlatilco [1] cultures at the beginning of the 20th century. [ 2 ] Archaeological research and context
Map of Pre-Columbian states of Mexico just before the Spanish conquest. The pre-Columbian (or prehispanic) history of the territory now making up the country of Mexico is known through the work of archaeologists and epigraphers, and through the accounts of Spanish conquistadores, settlers and clergymen as well as the indigenous chroniclers of the immediate post-conquest period.
The first pre-Columbian art to be widely known in modern times was that of the empires flourishing at the time of European conquest, the Inca and Aztec, some of which was taken back to Europe intact. Gradually art of earlier civilizations that had already collapsed, especially Maya art and Olmec art , became widely known, mostly for their large ...
From age three and up, girls wore blouses and boys wore capes. [13] From age four and up, girls additionally wore short skirts. [13] The clothing worn by girls were a typically simplified version of the clothing that would have been worn by their mothers. [2] From age five and up, the girls' short skirts was replaced with a longer skirts. [13]
Mesoamerica or Meso-America (Spanish: Mesoamérica) is a region and culture area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries. [3]
The practice of human sacrifice in pre-Colombian cultures, in particular Mesoamerican and South American cultures, is well documented both in the archaeological records and in written sources. The exact ideologies behind child sacrifice in different pre-Colombian cultures are unknown but it is often thought to have been performed to placate ...
For girls the three objects had to do with homemaking: a basket, a broom, and a spindle. [27] And there were five objects for boys, which had to do with male professions: an obsidian blade representing a featherworker, a brush for a scribe , an awl that carpenters work with, a tool used by goldsmiths, and shields with a bow and arrow for a ...
The Cambeba were a populous, organized society in the late pre-Columbian era whose population suffered a steep decline in the early years of the Columbian Exchange. The Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana traversed the Amazon River during the 16th century and reported densely populated regions running hundreds of kilometers along the river.