“Cerámica de los Ancestros” spotlights Central America’s past
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At the National Museum of the American Indian through February 2015
“Cerámica de los Ancestros” organizado por el Smithsonian se inaugura el 29 de marzo, 2013 a Febrero 01 de 2015. Esta exhibición ofrece una selección de más de 160 objetos de cerámica de Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica y Panamá. Delicados objetos de barro, jade, concha, oro y piedra completan esta interesante exposición que es un ejemplo de la riqueza de los pueblos centroamericanos. Piezas antiguas encontradas en recientes descubrimientos arqueológicos de las antiguas civilizaciones moseamericanas ahora aquí de visita en DC para el deleite de todos, No se la pierdan.
De la invitación en inglés:
The National Museum of the American Indian Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W. Phone: 202-633-1000 https://nmai.si.edu/visit/washington/ This exhibition illuminates Central America’s diverse and dynamic ancestral heritage with a selection of more than 160 objects. For thousands of years, Central America has been home to vibrant civilizations, each with unique, sophisticated ways of life, value systems, and arts. The ceramics these peoples left behind, combined with recent archaeological discoveries, help tell the stories of these dynamic cultures and their achievements. Cerámica de los Ancestros examines seven regions representing distinct Central American cultural areas that are today part of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Spanning the period from 1000 BC to the present, the ceramics featured, selected from the museum’s collection of more than 12,000 pieces from the region, are augmented with significant examples of work in gold, jade, shell, and stone. These objects illustrate the richness, complexity, and dynamic qualities of the Central American civilizations that were connected to peoples in South America, Mesoamerica, and the Caribbean through social and trade networks sharing knowledge, technology, artworks, and systems of status and political organization.
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