Mesoamerican
Styles of the Pre-Columbian region from present-day central Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula to parts of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
Mesoamerican
Styles of the Pre-Columbian region from present-day central Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula to parts of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
Basics to get you started
Olmec Jade
The Mesoamerican Calendar
The Maya, an introduction
More on the Aztecs (Mexica)
Painting Mexica (Aztec) history
Serpents in Mexica culture
Defining “pre-Columbian” and “Mesoamerica”
Mesoamerica, an introduction
Mesoamerican art in context: an excerpt from an origin story (Popol Vuh)
Glossary for pre-Columbian art
Late pre-classic Mesoamerica, an introduction
Periods in Mesoamerican history
The bug that had the world seeing red
Teresita Fernández on pre-Columbian gold
Olmec masks and masquerade, an introduction
Works of Art
Artists
Chakalte’, Relief with Enthroned Ruler, late 8th century (Classic Maya), limestone and paint, 88.9 x 87.6 x 7 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Periods, Cultures, Styles
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Maya civilization
c. 3000 B.C.E.–1697 C.E.
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Huastec civilization
c. 2000 B.C.E.–1521
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Tlatilco
c. 1800–400 B.C.E.
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Olmec
c. 1200–400 B.C.E.
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Zapotec civilization
c. 600 B.C.E.–900 C.E.
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Teotihuacan
c. 100 B.C.E.–750 C.E.
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Classic Veracruz
c. 1–1200 C.E.
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Mixteca-Puebla
c. 9th–early 16th century
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Paquimé (Casas Grandes)
c 1150–1350
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Mixtec civilization
c. 1200–1521
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Mexica (Aztec)
1325–1521
