The Mayan calendar is a collection of multiple calendars that were in use throughout the Mesoamerican civilizations. The system of the Mayan calendar can be dated back to about 500BC and it shared many aspects with calendars used by previous and contemporary civilizations including Zapotec, Olmec,...
This is not a day of sadness but a day of celebration because loved ones awake and celebrate with the living. This celebration in Mexico can be traced back to the indigenous peoples such as the Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Mexican, Aztec, Maya, P’urhépecha, and Totonac. Rituals ...
The Day of the Dead descends from the great cultures of Mesoamerica— Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Mixtec, Aztec—spiritual ancestors, masters of death and life: Read on Tags:Day of the Dead,Mesoamerica,Mexican festivals,Mictecacihuatl,San Miguel,San Miguel de Allende,Tlaloc ...
This is not a day of sadness but a day of celebration because loved ones awake and celebrate with the living. This celebration in Mexico can be traced back to the indigenous peoples such as the Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Mexican, Aztec, Maya, P’urhépecha, and Totonac. Rituals ...
The upper floor halls, dedicated to ethnography are worth checking out if you have more time. They focus on modern life for the descendants of Mexico’s indigenous groups. Regardless of where you are in the Museum, you’ll find the exhibits have excellent signage in both English and Spanish...
Three civilizations succeeded one another at Monte Alban, each shifting the same blocks: the Zapotecs building over the works of the Olmecs, and the Mixtecs doing the same to those of the Zapotecs. The calendars of the ancient Mexican civilizations, carved on the reliefs, represent a cyclic...
(Interestingly, very little is known about the life of the workers. They did not live in these stone cities of the rulers and their servants, but outside the walls, in wooden structures that have long since rotted away.) The ball court at Yaxha. In the afternoon Sofia joined us at the...
In the Northwest, Native groups exploited the great salmon-filled rivers. On the plains and prairie lands, hunting communities followed bison herds and moved according to seasonal patterns. In mountains, prairies, deserts, and forests, the cultures and ways of life of paleo-era ancestors were as...
(Actually the Mesopotamians were as far as the historic record goes. And in Meso America, the Olmecs. Also, the Olmecs and the Zapotecs had writing before the Mayans but not much of it survives.) Mayan sacrificial victims were painted blue and were sacrificed on a column shaped stone. ...
1858-1869: Aron of Kangeq (1822–1869), a Kalaallit sculptor and carver, paints over 300 watercolors about traditional lifeways in Greenland, later to be published in books 1860s: Depletion of buffalo and forced relocation onto reservations causes Plains Indians to shift from hide painting to...