The Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition refers to a set of interlocked cultural traits found in the western Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and, to...

digging shaft tombs was a widespread phenomenon with prominent examples found in Mycenaean Greece; in Bronze Age China; and in Mesoamerican Western Mexico. In...

AD, eastern Mexico Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, 1500–300 BC, Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, 300 BC–400...

from these tombs and their traditions. Artists such as Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Deep-shaft-and-chamber tombs are found in western Mexico and northwestern...

tradition of burying some of their dead in shaft and chamber tombs. Archaeological work from the past few decades have demonstrated that West Mexico was...

achieved by this tradition, with the particular regional characteristics found. The Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition or shaft tomb culture refers to...

archetype in many of the world's mythological, religious, and philosophical traditions. It is closely related to the concept of the sacred tree. The tree of...

died, he donated the property and his large collection of Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition ceramics to University of Colima, which converted into a...

established a tradition of bronze production and the manufacture of evermore refined bronze and iron objects, such as plows, axes and sickles with shaft holes...

Peru and the Olmec civilization of Mexico are believed to be the earliest in the Americas – previously known in Western literature as the New World. All...

Well into the 19th century, the classical tradition derived from Greece dominated the art of the Western world. Religion was a central part of ancient...

and western Mediterranean up to the Iberian Peninsula. Actually, many of the tombs of the Late Orientalizing and Archaic periods, such as the Tomb of the...

lasting six days, and Cyrus' son Cambyses accompanied the corpse to the tomb. One of the first acts of Cyrus accordingly was to allow the Jewish exiles...

must be viewed as an unbroken tradition that goes back to the earliest period of the Sindhu-Sarasvati (or Indus) tradition (7000 or 8000 BCE)." Though popular...

mythological El Dorado. Pendant made from a spondylus shell, Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition, 200 BC to 200 AD, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, United...

tombak, was given its own palanquin. In Hindu culture in Bali today, the tradition of using palanquins for auspicious statues, weapons or heirlooms continues...

the coast of Campeche, and those associated with the Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition. The tombs of Mayan rulers can only normally be identified by inferences...

(satrap) Poykent Sogdian Daēnās Sughd Province Kangju Tocharians Tomb of Wirkak Tomb of Yu Hong Yaghnobi people Yagnob Valley Yazid ibn al-Muhallab Jacques...

Realidades. Mexico portal Latin America portal North America portal Ixtlán del Rio (archaeological site) Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition Spanish pronunciation:...

thousands of figurines recovered by looters and ascribed to the "shaft tomb tradition". The Classic period is marked by the rise and dominance of several...

go three-quarters of iteru per hour (about 6.5 knots)..." The text of the tomb of Amenhotep I (KV39). When Thutmose III achieved warships displacement up...

Izapa Tlatilco Cuicuilco Zapotec Mezcala Chupícuaro Quelepa Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition Teuchitlán Veraguas Diquis Cholula Teotihuacan Nicoya Veracruz...

Phoenicians and Carthaginians, settled and colonized parts of western and southern Sardinia and western Sicily. Scholars believe - though sometimes on the basis...

Teuchitlan tradition Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition Yaqui, Sonora and now southern Arizona Zacateco Amuzgos Nahua, Guatemala and Mexico Alaguilac...

of menhirs (called perdas fittas) and dolmens, more than 2,400 hypogeum tombs called domus de Janas, the statue menhirs, representing warriors or female...

(1998). The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and Tombs. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 113–114. ISBN 0684852098. Freidel, et al...

weight in veined jasper, excavated in Susa in a 12th-century BC princely tomb. Louvre Museum Sb 17774. The Middle Elamite period began with the rise of...

their land (Aram). Such preference for foreign terms, advocated by some western scholars, is viewed as being culturally biased, and thus insensitive towards...

several cultures in West Mexico during the Late Formative to Classic periods that participated in the shaft tomb tradition in which some, but not all...

(800 BCE) in the Mascota Valley, which has a background with the shaft tomb tradition. There is also evidence of green stone articles, Jadeite cylindrical...