Food related to History Before 1500s The Maya Maize God Statue (MacGregor,pg 49) is a stone statue found in the Copan,Honduras area and has been dated back to 715 AD. The statue represents both the cycle of Agriculture which is planting and putting seeds in the ground to harvesting and receiving what you have worked hard for it. Also, represents the human life cycle of birth and growth and then eventually death or consumption. They think that the statue represented corn or maize because in the Mayan culture they believe that their ancestors came from corn and that they were formed of yellow and white maize dough so it was the main focus for their rituals. The reason this statue is a historical object is because it shows that people
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Because they were so round it was spread north and south until virtually covered all of America by 1000 AD. Because of their hard work, the Mayans did in working with food. Humans nowadays can digest corn a lot easier than back then they had to do a lot of work like boiling it with water and white lime to be able to get any nutrition out of it and then putting it down into a paste and a dough. So this God wanted them to work hard for what they would eat. The statue is a man with a big piece of corn on his head and one hand coming up and one palm with pointing away with just with his eyes closed and mouth open but the place where the statue was found a lot of the building had collapsed and so they do not know if the head is on the right body or not. But it doesn't really matter all that much for the fact that how it looks how we perceive it to look has an idea that we need of what they honored and the past and the narrative that they have shown us what they needed to eat what they found they could live off of in Central America. The Basse-Yutz Flagons (MacGregor,pg 177) bronze flagons found in Moselle North Eastern France …show more content…
This cup is a part of the Roman Empire we had found out what their ideas of sex and identity were worth from being able to find pieces like this. The cup shows a sexual coupling of adult men and an adolescent boys it is a silver goblet that would have a very large glass of wine in it. You can tell by what the picture of the coupling is that it would have only been used at parties where the act that is in the cup would have been visible all around the eyes of the people. Many of the Roman parties were all male parties because women should not be out at drinking events. Although it is a Roman piece it is thought to have had classic greek inspiration for the ideas that are behind the image on the cup or the same ideas that the Romans had taken from the classic Greek ideas. Relates to food items because it was a cup that was used to hold wine and other beverages at lavish Roman parties it is like the flagons for the fact that it did hold alcohol and use at the parties of the rich and important so they are the ones that could have these lavish parties. The cup is silver to find a silver cup in that time period while you can still see the images on it is a very rare find. It is thought that when the cup was found in Jerusalem that the cup was buried before the Romans left Jerusalem and that is why the cup is so well preserved for the fact that it
Because they were so round it was spread north and south until virtually covered all of America by 1000 AD. Because of their hard work, the Mayans did in working with food. Humans nowadays can digest corn a lot easier than back then they had to do a lot of work like boiling it with water and white lime to be able to get any nutrition out of it and then putting it down into a paste and a dough. So this God wanted them to work hard for what they would eat. The statue is a man with a big piece of corn on his head and one hand coming up and one palm with pointing away with just with his eyes closed and mouth open but the place where the statue was found a lot of the building had collapsed and so they do not know if the head is on the right body or not. But it doesn't really matter all that much for the fact that how it looks how we perceive it to look has an idea that we need of what they honored and the past and the narrative that they have shown us what they needed to eat what they found they could live off of in Central America. The Basse-Yutz Flagons (MacGregor,pg 177) bronze flagons found in Moselle North Eastern France …show more content…
This cup is a part of the Roman Empire we had found out what their ideas of sex and identity were worth from being able to find pieces like this. The cup shows a sexual coupling of adult men and an adolescent boys it is a silver goblet that would have a very large glass of wine in it. You can tell by what the picture of the coupling is that it would have only been used at parties where the act that is in the cup would have been visible all around the eyes of the people. Many of the Roman parties were all male parties because women should not be out at drinking events. Although it is a Roman piece it is thought to have had classic greek inspiration for the ideas that are behind the image on the cup or the same ideas that the Romans had taken from the classic Greek ideas. Relates to food items because it was a cup that was used to hold wine and other beverages at lavish Roman parties it is like the flagons for the fact that it did hold alcohol and use at the parties of the rich and important so they are the ones that could have these lavish parties. The cup is silver to find a silver cup in that time period while you can still see the images on it is a very rare find. It is thought that when the cup was found in Jerusalem that the cup was buried before the Romans left Jerusalem and that is why the cup is so well preserved for the fact that it