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- Title: Stela 11 (Siebal)
- Period: Terminal Classic
- Date: 849
- Civilization:
- Medium:
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- Temple of the Feather Serpent (Xichicalco)
- Terminal Classic
- 9th Cent.
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MITLA
2nd most important archelogical site after Monte Alban
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- Part of the Columns Group (Mitla)
- Terminal Classic
- 9th Cent.
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Huastecs
- Indigenous people of Mexico
- pre-Columbian mesoamerican culture
- constructed temples on step-pyramids, carved independently-standing sculptures, and produced elaborately painted pottery
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- Apotheosis Sculpture
- Tampico Region, 13-15th century
- Early Post-classic
- Double sided figures, skeleton and child
- Holes made for offerings of jade or inlaid eyes
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- Atlantean Columns, toltec rulers
- Tula, Pyramid B
- Early post classic
- 1200
- Produced in a workshop
- Originally shown red & white pigmentation
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- 1. Sagrado cenote
- 2. Bearded man temple
- 3. Juego de Pelota
- 4. Jaguar temple
- 5, kukulcan temple
- 6. deer temple
- 7. steambath
- 8. xtoloc cenote
- 9. iglesia
- 10. los guerreros temple
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- El castillo (chichen itza)
- Terminal classic
- 9th century
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- El caracol observatory temple
- Chichen itza
- terminal classic
- 9th cent
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Tulum
- Pre-columbian Maya walled city
- Major port for Coba
- 39 ft cliffs on east side of Yucatan Peninsula in Caribbean
- Height between 13-15th c.
- Survived 70 yrs after spanish occupied
- Demise: old world diseases brought by spanish settlers
- one of the best preserved coastal maya sites
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- El castillo of Tulum
- Post classic
- 13-15th c
- used obsidion to make tools and weapons
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- Dresden Codex
- Earliest known written book in the americas
- pre columbian maya book from 11th c
- Believed to be copy of original 300-400 yrs before
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- Templo Mayor
- Aztec
- Tenochitlan
- Post classic
- 1400-1500
- Temple to Tlaloc and Slipotly, rain and sun gods
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- Huitzilopochtli Tlaloc
- Two volcanoes: Ixtaccihuatl & Popocatepetl
- Built on 7 diff layers
- Found in diff layers - temples, leftover tools, offerings
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- Codex Mendosa
- Folio 2
- 1550
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- Aztec goddess Coatlicue
- Mother of earth
- post classic
- 1400-1500
- Very blocky
- Goddess of fertility
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- Coyolxauhqui
- Aztec
- 1469. Post Classic.
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- Headdress made from real Quetzl bird
- Fertility = green
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- Codex Selden
- 1556
- post classic
- Shows diff ambassadors and the blending of 2 diff cultures
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- Brogia Codex page 56
- Mictlantecuhtli and Quetzalcoatl in the guise of Echecatl. Before 1492, Post Classic
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- Aztec cosmogram
- pre-Hispanic Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
- the fire god Xiuhtecuhtli is in the center. B
- efore 1492, Post Classic. ;
- Folio 1.
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- Book IX Florentine Codex
- Written in Noatlyl with spanish translation
- Shows offerings, planting, etc daily life of aztec culture
- Trying to sympathize w natives
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