Ancient ceremonial plaza found in Peru

Associated Press ^ | February 26, 2008 | ANDREW WHALEN

[decimon]

The plaza served as a social and ritual space where ancient peoples celebrated their "thoughts about the world, their place within it, and images of their world and themselves," Fuchs said.

In an adjacent structure, built around 1800 B.C., Fuchs' team uncovered a 3,600-year-old adobe frieze — six feet tall — depicting the iconic image of a human sacrificer "standing with open arms, holding a ritual knife in one hand and a human head in the other," Fuchs said.

You can think about the world and your place in it but it's the guy with the knife who decides.

[decimon]

Head in hand ping.

[kinoxi]

Are they calling this Olmec?

[decimon]

Are they calling this Olmec?

Dunno.

[Soliton]

Yes I’m calling it, time of death 3261 BC, but don’t call me Olmec.

[kinoxi]

Good timing. You don’t like the word Olmec. What word do you prefer?

[Soliton]

I’ve been called Aztec and Azhole, I am a drilling technician in Phoenix. You choose.

[kinoxi]

I was asking a question. Is this Olmec. I am more than capable of ruining the thread. Why though?

[Little Bill]

There is a web site dedicated to the "Lords of Sipan", blood drinking and ritual sacrifice at its best. There is some good stuff if you search Moche Iconography.

This is dedicated to my Idol Marja Gumbatus who thought the world was a peaceful place.

[decimon]

Wow, what a spooky place to come from.

Can't argue with that. Too many lousy ways to die.

[LexBaird]

Why is it that anytime an archeologist finds someting, he assumes it is “ceremonial”? Is the town square in front of any random Euro cathedal “ceremonial”, or just an open place?

[Soliton]

I’m sorry.

The Olmec were a mother culture to later civilizations. The
culture of the Olmec started in Mexico’s Gulf Coast between 1200 and 1400 B.C so the time is right but the location is wrong.

The garishness of the painting, however, is a sign of Olmec egomania. They were known to have big heads.

[kinoxi]

Why are you sorry

[Soliton]

I thought you were accusing me of ruining the thread.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I’m wearing my standby pair of glasses at the moment so I first read this as “Ancient Ceremonial Pizza”....thinking, “hmmm, with coca and guanaco?”

[decimon]

...“Ancient Ceremonial Pizza”...

The one with the sacrificial anchovies.

[ndt]

"Is the town square in front of any random Euro cathedal “ceremonial”, or just an open place?"

Since the standard park/town square in front of so many cathedrals is regularly used and even planned around ceremonies such weddings, some with special ceremonial structures such as gazebos that the couple can take their vows in, "ceremonial" seems a perfectly accurate description what they are.

I would not be surprised if kids ran up and down the stairs at Chichen Itza when they were not busy with removing hearts. It's still a ceremonial location.

[Lily4Jesus]

The USA doesn’t have a prehistory

[SunkenCiv]

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