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Elegant Carved Mayan Bowl, Late Classic Period browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery: Pre AD 1000: item # 317459
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This well-carved ceramic Mayan bowl dates to the Late Classic Period, a time when the Mayan urban centers were in decline. As traditional trade routes disintegrated and organization crumbled, many of the outlying cities, like Copan, increased production of non-elite trade items to trade to modern-day El Salvador and Honduras to find new sources of revenue. Fine orangeware ceramics like this bowl are one of many types of trade items that were wildly successful with the peoples of these regions, and they have been recovered at numerous sites across Central America.
Classic Maya culture developed in three general regions in Mesoamerica. By far the most important and most complete urban developments occurred in the lowlands in the "central region" of southern Guatemala, which is the origin of most orangeware pottery. The principal city in this region was Tikal, but the spread of urbanization extended south to Honduras; the southernmost Mayan frontier city was Copan in northern Honduras. In the Guatemalan highlands to the north, Mayan culture developed less fully. The highlands are more temperate and seem to have been the main suppliers of raw materials to the central urban centers. The largest and most complete urban center in this region was Palenque. The other major region of Mayan development was the Yucatan peninsula, which makes up the southern and eastern portions of modern-day Mexico. The Late Classic Period saw a gradual abandonment of the lowlands of southern Guatemala, perhaps due to famine brought on by overcrowding or changing religious beliefs that left the principally ceremonial cities unimportant. However, the Mayans continued in a diminished capacity in the Guatemalan highlands and in the Yucatan through the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th Century. AGE: Late Classic Period, ca. 600-900 A.D. CONDITION: Excellent. Fully intact save for a minor loss under the rim on one side. DIMENSIONS: 8" in diameter and 4" tall |
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