User:Madman2001/Gallery

A selection of my maps

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  A map of the Olmec heartland.
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  Classic Era sites in western Mesoamerica
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  Mesoamerican sites where ballcourts, balls, or figurines dated earlier than 1000 BCE have been recovered
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  A map of the area in which the Epi-Olmec culture flourished between 400 BC and AD 200
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  A map of the southern-most area of Mesoamerica, showing important Formative Period sites
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  A site plan for the Tres Zapotes site, during the Epi-Olmec (Late Formative) period
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  Map of western Mexico, highlighting the core area of the Teuchitlan tradition
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  A map of the Thames River showing the places mentioned in T. S. Eliot's poem "Growltiger's Last Stand"

A selection of my artifact photos

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  Jadeite Olmec-style mask. 10th century - 6th century BC
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  A ceramic figurine from the Tlatilco culture of Mesoamerica
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  Jaina Island figurine of a drunkard, 400 - 800 AD , AD 400 - 800
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  A ceramic figurine showing typical "baby-face" characteristics. 1000 - 300 BC.
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  Male-female duality figure from Remojadas. 200-500 AD
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  A Jaina Island type figure from the Maya culture. 650 - 800 AD
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  A stone sculpture of Chicomecoatl, Aztec maize goddess. 1440-1521 CE.
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  A stone statue of Cihuacoatl, an Aztec fertility goddess. Dated 1325 - 1521 CE
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  A rather expressive vessel, done in Toltec style.
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  An Olmec-style "spoon" used for bloodletting
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  A basalt manopla, or handstone, from the Classic Veracruz culture. 300 BCE - 250 CE.
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  A "black jade" duckbill pendant from Veracruz/Tabasco, Mexico, dated 1000 - 300 BCE
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  "Seated Earth Mother effigy vessel" reportedly from Las Bocas, 1500 - 1000 BCE, attributed to the Olmec culture.
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  Jaguar-human Transformation Figure, basalt.
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  A greenstone (serpentine) figurine presenting a were-jaguar infant, a common theme in Olmec art.
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  Some small Olmec terracotta figurines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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  A Greater Nicoya ceramic incense burner with crocodile lid, 500 - 1350 CE (Period I - Period VII).
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  A model house from the Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition
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  A shaft tomb figurine from Jalisco executed in the Ameca style, dated by the Art Institute from AD 100 - 800
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  A life-size hollow ceramic statue of Xipe Totec, a late Mesoamerican god