Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, archaeological study reveals
libarts.source.colostate.eduu/kloudykat — 1 day ago
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![Lobster effigy vessel. Nazca civilization (Early Intermediate Phases IIII-IV), south coast, Peru, ca. 300-600 AD. Earthenware, slip paint. Walters Art Museum collection [1800x1408]](https://preview.redd.it/v54ulus5bzsg1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=c8f998b21961030088968a27873b43593be77986)
Lobster effigy vessel. Nazca civilization (Early Intermediate Phases IIII-IV), south coast, Peru, ca. 300-600 AD. Earthenware, slip paint. Walters Art Museum collection [1800x1408]
u/oldspice75 — 14 hours ago
![A codex-style ceramic plate decorated with the Maya death god Cizin wearing a turtle shell. From northern Petén in Guatemala or southeastern Campeche in Mexico, 600-900 CE, sold in 2019 at Binoche & Giquello in Paris [1080x1350]](https://preview.redd.it/37f1wjbpdwsg1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=ab69810db6b5723ea47db655ae8cfe43e5b46a35)
A codex-style ceramic plate decorated with the Maya death god Cizin wearing a turtle shell. From northern Petén in Guatemala or southeastern Campeche in Mexico, 600-900 CE, sold in 2019 at Binoche & Giquello in Paris [1080x1350]
u/Fuckoff555 — 24 hours ago
Stone relief of Tlaloc and Tlazolteotl. Huasteca culture, Castillo de Teayo, Veracruz
In Museo de Antropología de Xalapa
u/Climbing_plant — 13 hours ago
![Image 1 — Cahokia Mounds [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/vo7beoeyu7qg1.jpg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1e9a452263da12a9c90127842202417dc5b3b61f)
![Image 2 — Cahokia Mounds [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/2pvv7seyu7qg1.jpg?width=5705&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19c7dc7ee2d23b6b359c669526d0960e3aea644e)
![Image 3 — Cahokia Mounds [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/17i07peyu7qg1.jpg?width=5570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3da80dc835972ff32b73e348bdd9b3c288c7cc11)
![Image 4 — Cahokia Mounds [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/6wjpqoeyu7qg1.jpg?width=4683&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c35cb5e24476d2c87dd3b386aeca5a211b9bcfe)
![Image 5 — Cahokia Mounds [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/xp1zcoeyu7qg1.jpg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=deacf1038b4aa5e758cbad398827b91a43c8b919)
![Image 6 — Cahokia Mounds [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/p28ikpeyu7qg1.jpg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37ad5035477584e6c5912e2b6cfb7b2cb1a9e1f5)
![Image 7 — Cahokia Mounds [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/5mspcseyu7qg1.jpg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7534c39b0bd216bdce87ee6090d0deeaebe4d037)
![Image 8 — Cahokia Mounds [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/wbr7kweyu7qg1.jpg?width=5799&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=982e4c0486eb814bd06f55a98c2a25596485cafc)
![Image 9 — Cahokia Mounds [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/p999yveyu7qg1.jpg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69f1aacc308b666cab10e6753178ce0f4a9853fc)
![Image 10 — Cahokia Mounds [OC]](https://preview.redd.it/o9oiyreyu7qg1.jpg?width=3968&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d4bfbab5c3f03904be813452f0d4643e1b49772)
This is the Sun Dagger, a petroglyph at Chaco Canyon that used to be bisected by light on the summer solstice. Fracking around the area shifted it and it’s no loneger visual.
Look at the pinned post on this sub to see the danger currently facing Chaco Canyon
Not my photo
u/ToxicJolt124 — 8 hours ago
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Pre-Clovis mammoth with direct evidence of hunting at the Milwaukee Public Museum
I did not think to take pictures of the butchering marks on the bones until after I left, sorry guys.
u/ToxicJolt124 — 13 hours ago
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