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Native American flash cards
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04/21/2022

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Colossal Head-Olmec

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The Olmec colossal heads are stone representations of human heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. They range in height from 1.17 to 3.4 meters
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Machu Pichu Inca

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Machu Picchu, also spelled Machupijchu, site of ancient Inca ruins located about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Cuzco, Peru, in the Cordillera de Vilcabamba of the Andes Mountains.
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Teotihuacan

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Artifacts found in the city and sites across Mexico suggest Teotihuacan was a wealthy trade metropolis in its prime. In particular, the city exported fine obsidian tools, including spear and dart heads.
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Paracas textile

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In the ancient cemeteries on the Paracas Peninsula, the dead were wrapped in layers of cloth and clothing into “mummy bundles.” The largest and richest mummy bundles contained hundreds of brightly embroidered textiles, feathered costumes, and fine jewelry, interspersed with food offerings, such as beans.

 

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Aztec Calendar

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The Aztec or Mexica calendar is the calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico.
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Stirrup Vessel

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A stirrup spout vessel is a type of ceramic vessel common among several Pre-Columbian cultures of South America beginning in the early 2nd millennium BCE.
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Acoma vase

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The thin-walled and delicately decorated pottery of Acoma Pottery is among the most prized Indian crafts.
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Anasazi pueblo- Chaco Canyon

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A remarkable development started to take shape in what we now call Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. The Anasazis constructed large multi-story buildings with hundreds of rooms that archaeologists later called "Great Houses."
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Haida totem pole

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The totem pole is from Star House in Massett village on the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), Canada. Background. At 11.36m high the totem pole at the Pitt Rivers Museum is the largest object on display in the Museum.

 

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