What is Early America? Early America’s is a time period that started in 3000 B.C. -A.D. 1900, and there are plenty of things that happened in this time period. The Maya, Aztecs, and Inca are best known of the urban oriented civilization. The Native Americans was the oldest of nomadic hunters. There traditions included pottery, music and dance, and their architecture.
Pottery is apart of the cultural forces therefore pottery is along with their culture and also ceramics, which is the same thing. The tradition of pottery has been around more than 5000 years, the originals are from Ecuador from around 3200 B.c. Most pottery are constructed into bowls, vases, and jars. Pottery is made by oiled based clays, invented by William Harbutt in 1897. The Moche culture which is on the north coast of Peru, is the first culture to master making shapes of animals and human heads. The moche were innovators on many different artistic levels, that’s how they were able to make the best human head shaped vessels. …show more content…
Dances were often correlated with planting and harvesting ceromonies, hunting trips, war, and religious ceramonies. Types of dancing included a two part rhythm, alternating between a strong and a weak beat, dancers assuming a slightly bent over posture with raised kness, and also flat feet movement. Early America music and dance have some charecteristic because it cant be dancing without music. Wind instraments contain couch shell trumphets, which is a seashell horn that is used in religious ceramonies and other types of musical places. The reputable types of flutes are known as panpipes which is used in the Andes. Native Americans are the first ones to use stringed instuments including the gitar, volin, and the harp. All of these stringed instraments were introducted by
Pottery is apart of the cultural forces therefore pottery is along with their culture and also ceramics, which is the same thing. The tradition of pottery has been around more than 5000 years, the originals are from Ecuador from around 3200 B.c. Most pottery are constructed into bowls, vases, and jars. Pottery is made by oiled based clays, invented by William Harbutt in 1897. The Moche culture which is on the north coast of Peru, is the first culture to master making shapes of animals and human heads. The moche were innovators on many different artistic levels, that’s how they were able to make the best human head shaped vessels. …show more content…
Dances were often correlated with planting and harvesting ceromonies, hunting trips, war, and religious ceramonies. Types of dancing included a two part rhythm, alternating between a strong and a weak beat, dancers assuming a slightly bent over posture with raised kness, and also flat feet movement. Early America music and dance have some charecteristic because it cant be dancing without music. Wind instraments contain couch shell trumphets, which is a seashell horn that is used in religious ceramonies and other types of musical places. The reputable types of flutes are known as panpipes which is used in the Andes. Native Americans are the first ones to use stringed instuments including the gitar, volin, and the harp. All of these stringed instraments were introducted by