Mayan Tapestries
Description: Drawing done with sharpie pen on paper and edited in Photoshop CS5 Maya stelae (singular stela) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. They consist of tall sculpted stone shafts and are often associated with low circular stones referred to as altars, although their actual function is uncertain.[2] Many stelae were sculpted in low relief,[3] although plain monuments are found throughout the Maya region.[4] The sculpting of these monuments spread throughout the Maya area during the Classic Period (250�900 AD),[2] and these pairings of sculpted stelae and circular altars are considered a hallmark of Classic Maya civilization.[5] The earliest dated stela to have been found in situ in the Maya lo...
Description: La cultura maya se refiere a la propia de una civilización mesoamericana que destacó a lo largo de 18 siglos en numerosos aspectos socio-culturales tales como su escritura jeroglífica, uno de los pocos sistemas de escritura plenamente desarrollados del continente americano precolombino, su arte, la arquitectura y sus notables sistemas de numeración, así como en astronomía, matemáticas y comprensión de la ecología.
