I love when odd designs show up 1000s of kilometers apart. There are cylinder vessels in both of these areas as well. There is no study (that I know of) indicating if these are independent inventions or a diffusion of information about how to make this technology or sometimes even people, although the wide distribution of these pots makes that last less likely. The cylinder jars we know now are products of technology moving (a long with cacao), maybe these pots are for something highly specific as well? The more we understand how wide spread information exchange was, the more we realize that our idea of modernity and its heightened interconnectedness is really just a modern vanity. Or worse, one that serves to erase similar social processes in "premodern" times and disconnects contemporary people from the sophistication of their ancestors. 1) "Shoe-shaped" pot. Toledo district, Belize. Undated/unprovenienced, but common on Maya sites. 2) Sapawe "Duck" pot. 66.105.83 Maxwell Museum. #thetattooedtrowel #thepastispresent #thepastispower https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Rmg8EnGU4/?igshid=12wwdad1q45vn