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  • Ceramic photos and stone nails????

    These ceramic pieces are exhibited in a small museum in Teuchitlan, they represent ball games, dances, funeral processions, houses,, its like seeing photographs, a small glimpse of daily life and these artifacts like grooved axes, description says that they were part of construction systems in residential areas, they call them nails, it's great
    In chimalli in macahuitl

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    Very cool. are the ceramics old or new for display?
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    • Tenoch
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      These are old, they come from the works on the site, at least that's what they told me
      Last edited by Tenoch; 08-08-2022, 12:28 PM.

    • Hoss
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      Thank you amazing pieces of art.

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    Originally posted by Hoss View Post
    Very cool. are the ceramics old or new for display?
    Apparently, that culture did make ceramic dioramas…..

    Just outside the unassuming little town of Teuchitlán, Jalisco, 40 kilometers due West of Guadalajara, lies one of the most impressive archeological sites in all of western Mexico. However, the first time I saw it — in 1985 — I was anything but impressed. “Where’s the pyramid?” my friends and I asked a local farmer, [...]


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      Stupendous examples of diorama's T. Thanks for the show and info. K
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        Next best thing to a time machine.
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          great info..thanks for the peek.
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          • #7
            Clavas o Clavos?

            Not sure about Mexico, but in Central America and South America stone tools like you posted are often called Clavas- Clubs or Mace heads.
            Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida

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            • Tenoch
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              Clavos, they were embedded in the masonry like those in central Mexico that have carved skulls
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