Pre-Hispanic Timeline by vale https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic Art and Culture By. Valeria Fernández and Valeria Ramírez en-us 2023-03-06 17:25:49 UTC 2023-03-06 18:10:55 UTC hello@padlet.com Archaic Era valet91 https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505550963
  • Started at the 10 000 B.C. and ended at 4 000 B.C.
  • This is attributed to the end of the Ice Age 
  • The disappearance of big animals, such as the mammoth. 
  • This period is an interesting time of improving environmental conditions, resulting in a rich environment for humans to live in. 
  • Native American populations increased at least five-fold over Paleoindian times.
  • The materias that they used to make tools were the stone.
    • ]]>     2023-03-06 17:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505550963     Tepexpan Man valet91 https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505553198 It was discovered by Helmut de Terra. It is a skeleton that, believed at first to be 10 000 years old, because it was discovered near a mammoth of that age. Then, it was revealed that the bones were only 2 000 years old. In a curious note, after some investigations, scientifics concluded that Tepexpan man was not a man, but a woman.]]> 2023-03-06 17:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505553198 Pre-Classic Era valet91 https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505555207
  • This era started (approximately) from the 2500 b.C to the 200 a.C.
  • The agriculture was settled, but through time was diverse and wide.
  • They started the production of pottery.
  • They started creating villages.
  • Those villages later became towns.
  • The labor was divided.
  • The trade and commerce emerges.
  • A complex religious system started.
  • The production of textiles.
  • Commerce and trades emerge.
    • ]]>     2023-03-06 17:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505555207     Olmec Culture valet91 https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505557710
  • Developed before 1 200 B.C. and ended around 400 B.C. 
  • The Olmecs did, however, codify and record their gods and religious practices using symbols.
  • Were very organized and planned their cities in order to create balance and proportion. 
  • It was in La Venta were the very first pyramid from Mesoamerica was constructed. 
  • The most important animals were the jaguar, eagles, snakes and caimans.
  • Archaeologist Peter Joralemon identified eight different kind of gods in the Olmec civilization: the Olmec Dragon, the Bird Monster, the Fish Monster, the Banded-eye God, the Maize God, the Water God, the were-Jaguar and the Feathered Serpent. 
  • The art of the Olmec culture is one of the most important from the Precolumbian period, the most known works are the colossal stone heads. 
    • ]]>     2023-03-06 17:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505557710     Classic Era valet91 https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505558380 This era started in 200 a.C.
    • The increase and introduction of new agricultural techniques.
    • The density in population increased.
    • Ceremonial centers emerged.
    • Developments with the trades, consequent forms of cultural contact with other regions and their people.
    • New structures were created (social, economic, politics, religious).
    • Development of art.
    • The creation of calendrical systems.
    ]]>     2023-03-06 17:43:09 UTC https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505558380     Maya Civilization valet91 https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505560255 They perfected mathematics, astronomy, architecture and the visual arts and also refined and perfected the calendar.
    Mayans also created a very specific and concrete mathematic system that allowed people to trade and commerce. Their system consisted in three symbols: a shell that represented the zero, a dot that represented the one and a line or a bar that represented five.]]>     2023-03-06 17:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505560255     Post-Classic Era valet91 https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505561639 Between the year 900 and the conquest.
    • Military activity became important.
    • Political etiles.
    • Group of warriors.
    ]]>     2023-03-06 17:45:23 UTC https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505561639     Aztec valet91 https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505562815 During the Postclassic Era flourished the Aztecs, also called Mexicas. According to the legend, they emigrated in order to find a place to live. Near the Lake Texcoco, they found an eagle eating a snake, as portrayed in the coat of arms of Mexico. They founded here one of the largest cities in the world at the time: Tenochtitlan.]]> 2023-03-06 17:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/valet91/Art_and_culturePrehispanic/wish/2505562815