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2. Jaina Island - Wikipedia

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   Handcrafted male figurine, 650–800 AD. Jaina Island is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site and artificial island [1] [2] in the present-day Mexican state of Campeche.A small limestone island on the Yucatán Peninsula's Gulf coast with only a tidal inlet separating it from the mainland, Jaina served as an elite Maya burial site, and is notable for the high number of fine ceramic ...

3. Ancient Maya art - Wikipedia

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   Symbolism and history in Maya Architecture: Temple 22 at Copan, Honduras.' Ancient Mesoamerica 22(2), September 2011: 271-300. Simmons Clancy, Flora, The Monuments of Piedras Negras, an Ancient Maya City. Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico Press 2009. Spinden, Herbert, A Study of Maya Art: Its Subject Matter & Historical Development. New York: Dover ...

4. Maya ceramics - Wikipedia

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   As defined and used by Southwestern archaeologists, a ware is "a large grouping of pottery types which has little temporal or spatial implication but consists of stylistically varied types that are similar technologically and in method of manufacture", and "a defined ware is a ceramic assemblage in which all attributes of paste composition (with the possible exception of temper) and of surface ...

5. Chacmool - Wikipedia

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   Maya chacmool from Chichen Itza, excavated by Le Plongeon in 1875, now displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool or Chac Mool) is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach.

6. Antiquities returning to Mexico include Mayan vase sold for ...

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   The Mexican government will welcome back 20 cultural artifacts that date to the country's storied ancient past, all found in the United States including a Mayan vase over 1,000 years old and ...

7. Museum of Maya Sculpture - Wikipedia

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   The museum was built in 1993, as part of the tourist attraction of the archaeological site and to preserve many of the sculptures found in and around Copán.The museum wanted to have a considerable size to be able to house the enormous collection of archaeological pieces, in addition to having an open design so that it can have a guaranteed entry of natural light, since when it was built the ...