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  2. Jade use in Mesoamerica - Wikipedia

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    Maya pendant in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Map showing the locations of some of the main jade, obsidian and serpentine sources in Mesoamerica. The archaeological search for the Mesoamerican jade sources, which were largely lost at the time of the Maya collapse, began in 1799 when Alexander von Humboldt started his geological research in the New World.

  3. Oxkintok - Wikipedia

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    Almost always included shell jewelry and fragments, jade mask and/or pendant fragments, few obsidian tools, and a form of tripod ceramics. Bones There many skeletal remains throughout site that aren't included in burials, and were either parts of offerings or have been intentionally deposited.

  4. Maya belt plaques - Wikipedia

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    Maya belt plaques were decorative and functional pendants worn by ancient Maya ajawob (rulers) to validate their rulership through referencing major deities and important ancestors. They can be seen as significant elements of the costumes of rulers on stelae and in other representations found in ancient Maya art. These plaques, which hung from ...

  5. Leyden plaque - Wikipedia

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    There, together with copper bells and pottery fragments, the little jade plate was found. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The plate was taken to the Netherlands in 1864 and gifted to the National Museum of Ethnology. The first scientific description of the plate was made by Leeman in 1877, and many others followed, notably Holden in 1880 and Valentine in 1881, who ...

  6. Corozal Town - Wikipedia

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    The most interesting artifacts so far discovered are the five jade head pendants. Within Corozal, itself can be found another Maya ruins from the fourteenth century AD. Known as Santa Rita, the pyramid site sits atop the remains of a Maya city that dominated the area for more than 2000 years, and burial sites rich in jewelry and artifacts have ...

  7. Yupei - Wikipedia

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    Yupei (Chinese: 玉佩; pinyin: Yùpèi) is a generic term for jade pendants. [1] Yupei were popular even before Confucius was born. [2]: 18 Jade culture is an important component of Chinese culture, [1] reflecting both the material and spiritual culture.

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