Mesoamerican Art

Vocabulary

• Olmec• Maya • Teotihuacan• Veracruz• Popol Vuh• Palma• Yolk

Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Art

• Olmec culture: 1200 BCE, peaked around 500 BCE. Region of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador

• Mayan Culture: 3000 BC, peaked 250-900 CE. Region of Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador

• Teotihuacan, Mexico: 100 BC-750 CE Peaked between 2nd-3rd centuries CE with a population of over 200,000 people

• Aztec culture: 1325-1519 CE

Olmec culture,Female ritual

ballplayer figurine,Mexico,

1500-1000 BCE

Olmec, Colossal Head, 900-400 BCE

Great Pyramid and ball court, La Venta, Olmec, ca. 1000-600 BCE

View of Teotihuacan, Mexico, 350-650 CE

Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan

Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan, after 350

Mayan Culture, Ball Court, Copan, 600-900 CE

Mayan Culture, Popol Vuh Codex

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Veracruz culture, Palma with God of Death, 700-900 CE

Veracruz, Ball game yoke, 600-900 CE

Bloodletting Ritual, Teotihuacan, 600-750

Lintel with Vision of Lady Xok, Palenque, Mayan, after 681

Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque, Mayan, late 7th century

Cahokia, E. St. Louis, Illinois, 1150

Great Serpent Mound, Ohio, ca. 1070

Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, 830-1250

Hunter’s Mural, Nine Mile Canyon, Utah, 800-1300

Earth Drawings, Nazca Plain, Peru, ca. 100 BCE-700 CE