#early classic

[jade-quetzalpapalotl]

Detail of mural, Structure B-XIII, Uaxactun.

A Maya personage painted in black greets a visitor costumed as a Teotihuacan warrior. To the right is a palace scene with seated noble ladies.

Tzakol culture, Early Classic period.

Housed at Popul Vuh Museum in Guatemala City, Guatemala

[lionofchaeronea]

One of a pair of Mayan painted earflares (ceramic buffware with black-brown paint) depicting deities’ heads in profile.  Artist unknown; 300-600 CE (Early Classic).  Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.  Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.

[messoamerica]

Greenstone standing figures • Teotihuacan, Mexico • AD 200 - 250

[intertimensional]

Important Facts

- early classic vase artists in ancient Greece dissed each other via text on their pottery

- if someone on such a vase has their dick out it means they're out of their minds

- if you wanna determine whether a statue's late archaic or early classic you take a good look at the butt

[messoamerica]

Cocle style polychrome dish • Rio de Jesus, Darien, Panama • AD 200 - 600