Enthroned Maya lord and courtiers, cylinder vase (rollout view), Maya, from Motul de San José region, Guatemala, 672-830 CE. Ceramic with red, rose, orange, white, and black on cream slip, approx. 8" high. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections, Washington, D.C.
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The Caracol (foreground) and the Castillo (background), Maya, Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico, ca. 800-900 CE.
Pendant in the form of a bat-faced man, Tairona, from northeastern Colombia, after 1000. Gold, 5 1/4" high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection).
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Reconstructed drawing of sacred center showing temple and associated sunken courtyards, Chavín de Huántar, Peru, first millennium BCE.
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Raimondi Stele, Chavín, from main temple, Chavín de Huántar, Peru, first millennium BCE. Incised green diorite, 6' high. Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Lima, Peru.