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Aerial view of a stone wall structure
Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe’s architectural layout and material culture have been key in understanding the site’s settlement history and economic, social, and political organization.
Tawanda Mukwende
May 27
Double Crocodile Pendant, Gold, shell, Cocle (Macaracas)
Gold in the Chiefdoms of Ancient Panama
The earliest evidence of metallurgy found in the Isthmus of Panama can be dated between the second and third centuries CE.
Orlando Hernández Ying
May 27
A flying panel metate (tablelike object of stone) with five felines worked into the legs on the metate's underside
Stone Sculptural Art in Costa Rica
Ancient artists of Costa Rica demonstrated great artistic skill in creating stone works such as metates, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures, and spheres.
Francisco Corrales Ulloa
May 21
Bare-chested female ceramic figure wearing a multistrand necklace with a sizable pendant and a decorated head cover.
Representations of Power in Ancient Coastal Ecuador
Artistic representations of power emerged from multiple cultural traditions in coastal Ecuador during the period between 300 BCE and 600 CE.
Florencio Delgado Espinoza
May 7
Red and white double-chambered ceramic bottle with a seated human figure holding a Spondylus shell
El arte imperial wari
Tanto la sociedad wari como la tiwanaku prepararon el terreno para imperios andinos posteriores.
José Ochatoma Paravicino
March 6
Red and white double-chambered ceramic bottle with a seated human figure holding a Spondylus shell
Wari Imperial Art
The artistic expressions of the Wari and Tiwanaku societies dominated the Central Andes for nearly five hundred years (600–1000 CE).
José Ochatoma Paravicino
March 6
Dark smooth bannerstone carved in the shape of a double-bitted axe
Bannerstones: Ancient Indigenous Stone Carvings, North America (6000–1000 BCE)
Bannerstones were made by nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples in the eastern half of North America between 6000 and 1000 BCE during the Archaic period.
Anna Blume
February 18
Detail of hand colored pen and ink rebus letter consisting of horizontal lines of images and letters.
Love is Blind: Rebuses in The Met Collection
Explore European rebuses in The Met collection with Nancy Rosin, a volunteer cataloguer in Drawings and Prints.
Nancy Rosin
February 14
A red and white ceramic vessel with sculptural figures on the deck arranged in a ritual scene
The Art of the Recuay
In the first millennium CE, several communities in the northern highlands of Peru shared a distinctive tradition that is known today as the Recuay.
Hugo C. Ikehara–Tsukayama
January 31
Detail of a carved human figure finial with hands clasped at its chest, with designs traced in white against the black surface.
Mutuaga Oitau – The Carved Man
Mutuaga’s spatula at The Met is a product of innovation and adaptation in the face of sweeping colonial and missionary incursions into the Territory of Papua.
Sylvia Cockburn and Susan Abel
January 28