Today’s artifact blog takes us to Northern Peru during the Pre-Columbian period (1000 BC - 1000 AD). This horizontal-compound vessel is from the Vicus culture and dates to approximately 100 BC- 600 AD.
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Like many of the cultures surrounding them, their pottery techniques were exquisite. They range from depicting naturalistic to fantastical or supernatural scenes. For the Nasca people, it was their primary way of artistic and symbolic expression.
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Mississippian culture (900 A.D.-1,450 A.D) is well known for its expertise in pottery-making. In this post, we are focusing on the craftsmanship of the Quapaw people. The Quapaw also work pottery into effigy forms that depict animals like dogs, deer, otters, and frogs; objects like shells, and even people!
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The Moche culture began its history around 200 A.D. along Peru's northern coast and fell around 900 A.D. Their artisans and artists left behind valuable looking-glasses to their culture's values, ideology, mythology, and religious practices found in the crafts they created.
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Distinct Caddoan culture emerged around 1000 A.D. in South Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and East Texas. However, the Caddo pottery tradition emerged around 800 A.D.; it has become an unmistakable characteristic of the Caddo people. Caddo pottery is superior in technical construction to most all other Mississippian Era pottery.
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Archaeologists estimate that dogs have been domesticated for over 10,000 years, with evidence in the archaeological record indicating domesticated dogs have existed in the southwestern region of Mexico for at least 3,000 years. Ceramic effigies, or representations, of Xoloitzcuintle, more commonly referred to as Xolo, or Mexican Hairless, have been found across the region.