The Olmec vessel’s mask snarls with a jaguar’s fangs and a bird’s hooked beak, its hollow eyes fixed in a glare beneath a ridged brow. This face may have channeled the rain deity’s voice in rituals—was its open mouth meant to roar or to drink?

#OlmecArt #AncientAmericas #ClevelandMuseumofArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.67

"Oral, archaeological, and written evidence all show that large populations survived in all of these places by adjusting how they lived, by creating smaller scale societies that in many ways worked better for people and their environments."

#KathleenDuVal discusses her book #NativeNationsAMillenniumInNorthAmerica

https://www.youtube.com/live/GIL2bpOj70s?t=1101s

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #AncientCities #AncientAmericas #Cahokia #Hohokam #MedievalWarmPeriod #LittleIceAge #books @bookstodon