Pottery

It is minutes later now and we are trudging down an overgrown trail, tactfully descending the deep slopes of New Mexican land. Everything smells strongly of mud and salt and soaked manure from the horse barn down the road. I almost trip over a weed, but my father steadies me and says, “Almost there, baby.” The arroyo is different than I have ever seen it. It is scattered with long, silver puddles. In the pink glow of the rising sun, the sand looks shiny and slippery. Around us, green tufts of…

population, each cluster of settlements contained anywhere from two thousand to five thousand people” (Grann 314). He also explained that their villages were made of organic material which decomposes with time. The only things they left behind was broken pottery, and bones. Heckenberger then began to explain what their villages looked like, “They liked to have beautiful roads and plazas and bridges. Their monuments were not pyramids, which is why they were hard to find; they were horizontal…

The Astonishing Tombs of Sipán Around 100 to 800 A.D., there was an ancient civilization that thrived on the north coast of Peru. This ancient civilization was called “Moche”. The civilization was believed to be a normal ancient civilization, but in 1987, artifacts of the Moche started showing up on the art market illegally. Later it was discovered that a group of grave robbers had looted these ancient royal tombs. With the help of the Peruvian police, Walter Alva set out to find these…

Tastefully developed and carefully curated, The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University now holds one of the largest collections of Spanish art outside of Spain. The museum prides itself on displaying widely diversified paintings, a statement I do not fully agree with. Although the two-story museum’s walls are furnished with with a wide variety of subject content there is a chauvinistic sense about their collections. I am not saying there is an unequal ratio of male to female portraits…

brought many diseases and powerful killing weapons to the Iroquois that wiped out many of their numbers. Of course, the weapons did help the Iroquois hunt, and the Europeans brought things like metal pots, (which were more durable than Iroquois pottery), but overall, the Europeans had a negative effect on the Iroquois. Perhaps the most important thing about the Iroquois is their constitution, which greatly affected that of the United States, (specifically the Bill of Rights). The ideas of…

Ever since I was eight, I would travel to an all girls camp, during the summer, called “The Summer Camp”. The trip was an 8 hour death ride from Manhattan, New York City to Washington, Maine. The first time I arrived, I hated it, because campers could not obtain electronic devices, as mentioned before, Maine was far from my home, and lastly, my comfort zone was an urban, fast pace city, not the woods. Additionally, the camp had schedules to follow. Breakfast started at 8 am and ended at 9:30 am,…

To inhibit or to demonstrate imagination or creativity is a personal choice. But where does the creativity come from? Is it learned or a natural cognitive process? Attempting to understand the creative mind requires heavy exploration through historical analysis, research, and ideological conceptions. What sparked in our ancestors’ minds to challenge their creatively-mundane lives to paint on the cave walls or build permanent structures? The structures that evolved from necessary simple material…

biggest and most beautiful. Also, they have the purpose to built is that to celebrate civic power and pride. The Mayan culture has evolved over three thousands years. According to the book Building across Time, the Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, spectacular art and impressive architecture and the Maya civilization included some fifty independent states and more cities than anywhere else in the Pre-Columbian Americas, The Mayans…

Pylos, Thebes, Athens, and Tiryns. They were seafaring people which meant they lived near the sea. One thing that they benefited to Greece was their art and culture. But what stood out the most, was their art of naturally forming flowing designs on pottery, fresco, and jewelry which was admired by their own people and to other city-states. also, their art and religious beliefs had some similarities and connected with each other . Mycenaean religion had many beliefs and rituals such as, animal…

Charlemagne, who was also known as Charles the Great was born around 742. He was referred to as the “Father of Europe” and the man who spurred the Carolingian Renaissance that united the Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire (Biography.com Editors). His father was Pepin the Short, who was the reigning King of the Franks. After the death of Charlemagne’s father, the Frankish kingdom was divided between Charlemagne and his younger brother Carloman. After the death of his…