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These figures are "massive statues of Toltec warriors". [1] They take their post-Columbian name from the European tradition of similar Atlas or Atalante figures in classical architecture. Though the most famous Atlantean figures reside in Tula, the Olmecs were the first to use Atlantean figures on a relief discovered in Potrero Nuevo. [2]
Each warrior figure is of basalt, four meters high, with an atlatl or spear thrower, incense, a butterfly shaped chest plate and a back plate in the shape of a solar disk. [5] A large vestibule fronts the pyramid and connects it to nearby buildings. Today this vestibule and building (Building C) are a space filled with broken columns.
With later migrations Atlantic creole culture can be found throughout the Americas and the world, as Jane Landers notes, the Atlantic Creoles were "merchants, enslavers, linguists, sailors, artisans, musicians, and military figures" who "interacted with a wide variety of European and Amerindian groups and helped shape a new Atlantic world system."
Although Tula remains at the centre of the commemoration of the revolt, other leading figures are now also receiving attention, such as Carpata, Pedro Wacao, Louis Mercier en Sablika. [ 11 ] The revolt was dramatized in the 2013 Dutch film Tula: The Revolt , directed by Jeroen Leinders and starring Obi Abili as Tula alongside Jeroen Krabbé and ...
The Atlantic slave trade was the result of, among other things, labour shortage, itself in turn created by the desire of European colonists to exploit New World land and resources for capital profits. Native peoples were at first utilized as slave labour by Europeans until a large number died from overwork and Old World diseases. [151]
Winter Storm Kingston swept across the U.S. from the Midwest into the South and mid-Atlantic, bringing snow, ice and dangerous road conditions to cities including Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kansas City and ...
The wreckage of a Delta Air Lines-operated CRJ900 aircraft lays on the runway after a plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport. - Cole Burston/Reuters
But the Paramount+ series “Tulsa King” captures a far grungier side of the Sooner State, and much of the credit for that goes to the show’s production designer, Todd Jeffery. Created by ...