Americas Before 1300
This was discovered at Olmec sites that is evidence of long-distance trade with other parts of Mesoamerica.
What is Jade
This object shows that the Aztecs viewed time cyclically.
What is the Calendar or Sun Stone
This culture influenced the architecture of the Pyramids at Meroë.
Who were the Egyptians
This type of media allowed African artists to reclaim their own image from the colonial gaze.
What is Photography
This is a system of writing using symbols or pictures.
What is Hieroglyphic
This Mesoamerican culture’s architecture is characterized by talud-tablero construction, where a sloping base supports a flat entablature.
What is Teotihuacan
Maria Montoya Martinez developed this type of ceramic style.
What is Blackware
This characteristic feature appears in Nok sculptures of human figures and animals.
What are triangular D-shaped eyes
The Fang people use this type of wooden sculpture as a point of mediation between ancestors and the living.
What is a Reliquary Guardian
This is a container that holds relics.
What is a Reliquary
The Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque is built above a corbel-vaulted stairway that leads to this ruler’s tomb.
Who is Pakal the Great
This abruptly changed life on the Great Plains in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental railway
Ethiopian manuscripts were influenced by this culture.
What is Byzantine
These palaces had elaborately decorated woodcarvings.
What are Yoruba
This has separate pages of vellum or parchment bound together at one side. It is a predecessor to the modern book.
What is a Codex
Mayan inscriptions commonly recorded specific historical events on architecture and these monuments.
What are Stele
These helped unify the Inca Empire.
What are roadways
In the thirteenth century, these structures at Lalibela in Ethiopia are evidence of the popularity of Christianity.
What are Rock cut churches
This posture of the nkisi nkonde suggests alertness.
What are bent knees
This is a ceremonial Igbo house built about every 50 years in honor of the earth goddess Ala.
What is a Mbari
This culture developed ceramic molds that allowed them to mass-produce some of their pottery forms.
Who are the Moche
After the Spanish invasion, Aztec craftspeople began creating these with Christian subjects.
What are feather paintings
The exterior walls at the Great Enclosure of Zimbabwe are topped with these designs.
What are chevrons
The display of African art in museums is problematic because their full meaning can only be understood in this context.
What is Ritual Performance
This is the wood-and-metal reliquary guardian figures of the Kota of Gabon.
What is a Mbulu ngulu