Monday 3 March 2014

The Medievil years Pre-clolumbian art



The Maya Calendar From internet


The Maya Calandar has a series of cycles which shows 52 years.  The Mayern Calander was known to keep a historical record of mythalocial starting point many years ago.  Mayern calenders are carved into stone and mountains, and they covered 13 days and it counted them 13 days untill the 21st December 2012 which was believed could be judgement day.  This shows that the mayern callender could have been believed that the day that ends the world could end.  But it was predicted that the world was going to end as only 2 of the 15000 mayerns mention 2012.

From a documentry 


  • The Maya callander is one of the ancient things like stone henge, the pyramaids etc
  • Ther Maya callander counts from when the world first started to when judgement day is believed
  • The Maya callander has been known to be around since 3000 bc
  • Is believed to have been developed by Indians in north america in approximately 16 thousand years ago
  • It is believed that arctuteors from the middle east, America, egypt and asia share similaralities 


The Maya Paintings

The maya had painted on the walls of temples as well as other buidlings had had done the painting of murals on the wall.  Murals varied differantly from pre-columbian it had represented life from battles to religion in the measoamerica.



All-Toqapu tunic - From Book


  • The All-Toqapu Tunic is a collection of oaks known widely from the inka culture.  
  • The All-Toqapu tunic is made up from different types of surfaces and allows fuller description of it's own culture 
  • This piece dates back from 1450 Camelid fiber and cotton 



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