Tenth video about the American Art serie. Any doubt? Send me a message.

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The Art in the American continent is divided in three main sides: North America, Mesoamerica and South America. The amerindians emigrated from Asia to America through the Bering strait in the last glaciation.

The cultures in South America developed mostly in the andean region. The most important ones were Kotosh, Chavin, Paracas, Nasca, Moche, Lambayeque, Tiawanaku, Wari, Chimu, Inca, and the zone of Amazonia. About the origins, it is not sure if the people came from the north, the west or the Easter Island.

Cave of the Hands: it is in Argentina, and these are paintings from 7000 BCE.

Kotosh
Village culture. Huaca is a sacred building or object of adoration.
Temple of the crossed hands: sunken area and a relief of crossed hands, one male and other female, of unknown meaning.

Chavin
The most important zone is Chavin de Huántar, an important ceremonial center.
New Temple: probably the square of this building exhibited the Raimondi stele, that would be the main sacred stone. Porch of the Falcónidas, subterranean galleries and ventilation ducts. The Cabezas clava (sorry, I couldn’t find an english name for them) are like an ashlar, but with a head with individualized face, often with jaguar teeth.
Old Temple: the oldest temple, with U shape. In the interior there are many chambers. In one of them is the Lanzón.
El Lanzón: representation of an humanoid with jaguar face, smiling, with decoration. Unknown purposes.
Tello Obelisk: it is the caiman god, Viracocha, a bit hard to see. It is a double god. There are a few interpretations. Feline head, or two caimans, or flying feline (a bird god with jaguar mouth).
Raimondi Stele: associated to the caiman god, headdress very tall, serpents, jaguar faces. The god has two scepters. Similar to the god of El Lanzón.
Yauya Stele.
Reliefs of Cerro Sechín: very plain reliefs. Various theories about the meaning. Battle scenes, laboratory of anatomy or human sacrifices.
Huaca Garagay: sunken courtyard with painted reliefs with zoomorphic figures.
Golden Crown.
Ceramics. Mainly black burnished ceramic, with grollet.

Paracas
Deformed skull by cranial trepanations. Unknown purposes.
Textile. Paracas textile, made with cotton and wool. Paracas-Necropolis.
Ceramics.

Music: Mesoamerican II by Civilization III

Photos taken in Google images.

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