Preclassic Mexican art, Tlatilco flute figure
Preclassic precolumbian Mexican art, Tlatilco figure from the Harvey Menist
collection
A Tlatilco Female Figure, Middle Preclassic, Circa 900-600 B.C.
 size:
20,5-cm
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Harvey Menist. collected it end 60's begin 70's in an American collection.
There are some numbers and letters painted in black "HAM 9"and in
white "0604" below this statue
final period 600-300 BC . Plateau county of Central Mexico.
The head has been reglued, and the shoulder and nose have been repainted. On
the back there is a small part missing where the flute was put into the mouth
(see images below)
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Tlatilco
was a pre-Columbian settlement in the Valley of Mexico. The
culture of Tlatilco was one of the first which was located in Anahuac, on the
shores of Lake Texcoco. Her
historical period lies within the Pre-Classic Period, between 1500 BC. and
300 BC .. The
name comes from the Tlatilco Náhuatl and means "where things
are hidden".
This
name was given by the first Nahua
because
when they settled in the Valley of Mexico, the culture of Tlatilco was already
gone. Nowadays it is thought that the city was dominated or strongly influenced by
the Olmecs, who once where the great culture of Mesoamerica.
Looking at the
found remains we can conclude that
the people of Tlatilco were skilled in pottery making (influenced by the Olmecs)
and could work with ceramics. Known
are the simple pictures of women, which probably were used for fertility
rituals. In addition they made skull deformation and mutilation of teeth.
According
to recent studies developed the inhabitants of Tlatilco never created
clothes or any kind of written language
or images. They
walked
around naked with body paint, preferably in red. They
were hunters and practiced a rudimentary form of agriculture until the arrival
of the Olmec.
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Tlatlico Bibliography and recommended books on this subject :
Tlatilco
and the Pre-Classic Cultures of the New World 
~ Muriel Noe Porter
The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors, Third Edition:
Archaeology of Mesoamerica (v. 1)
~ Muriel Porter Weaver
Origins
of Religious Art & Iconography in Preclassic Mesoamerica 
~ H. B. - Edit. Nicholson
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica (Cambridge World
Archaeology)
~ Christopher A. Pool
The
Lords of Life: The Iconography of Power and Fertility in Preclassic Mesoamerica.
~ Douglas E. and Peter David Joralemon Bradley
MP3:
Double Whistle (Tlatilco culture)
~ Jorje Daher
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