Ancient Pottery Art Precolumbian America

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Ancient Pottery Art

Pre-Columbian America

Published by Alejandro Trianaat Smashwords

Copyright 2014Alejandro Triana

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Table of Contents

PrefaceThe transformation of language

preColombia "rchaeological #ones $map%

&isual Collection pre-Columbian Colombia'ature

People

(omen and Pottery

)ssay Pre-Columbian "merica

!ibliography


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Preface

*... when he had made heaven and earth, andstill no plants, nor the grass had grown because of

had not sent rain, nor had anyone who work it on,then +od formed the man from the earth itself,and with a breath gave him life *

Genesis


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The transformation of lanuae

. Ceramic portraits in pre-Columbian "merica and theirmoulds $like negative film% reflect the agricultural revolution frommillennia before Christ, as in the th centurys industrialrevolution in )urope, when the bon bourgeois managed toreproduce his image in a mechanical way $the photography%, with

the ability /to seem to himself0, in a way that had only beenpossible for the 1ings and members of nobility with the painterscanvases.

In pre-Columbian "merica women and men portrayedthemselves and their animals2 with clay they made portraits,decorated figures of animals and people, as well as whistles and

vessels, necklace beads and wheels spindles to spin cotton. Theyalso made stone cylinders and stamps for printing their clothes andto paint their bodies3 they sculptured the diseases they sufferedand their surgical interventions $such as trepanation%, including theway that they lulled their babies to sleep.

The proposal is to look into "merica when the currentnational and geopolitical borders did not e4ist, when women andmen daily recreated the utilitarian, symbolic and ritual function ofthe clay, to appreciate through the voices of silence -the traditionalname of sculpture- the knowledge, intelligence and feelings hiddenbehind the art and technology of archaeological pottery.


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!reColumbian Colombia


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Pre-Columbian Colombia

"isual Collection

#ature


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Calima 6 78 4 9 4 8 cms. apro4.

archaeological #one C":I;"
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Tumaco6 8< 4 4 7 cms. apro4.

archaeological #one T=;"C>
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Quimbaya6 ? 4 ? cms. apro4

archaeological #one @=I;!"A"
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"isual collection


Peo!le


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Muisca6 4 < 4 < cms. apro4

archaeological #one ;=IBC"
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Cauca 6 7 4 4 7 cms.

archaeological #one C"=C"
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Tumaco6 D 4 4 9 cms. apro4.

archaeological #one T=;"C>
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"isual collection


$omen and Pottery


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Tayrona6 ? 4 E cms. apro4.

archaeological #one T"AF>'"
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Chimila 6 7 4 7< cms. apro4.

archaeological #one CGI;I:"
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Nario 6 ? 4 7 cms. apro4.

#ona arHueolgica '"FIJ>
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Pre Columbian America

It was about


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rivers valley that spreads to the north it is reached the Caribbeansea, plenty of sun, blue hori#on and lukewarm water.

"fter more than twenty years of research "ustrianarchaeologist +erardo Feichel-Kolmatoff stated $E?% that it ispossible to suppose that during the years ,


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Archaeoloy$DE%. !ut that seHuence did not include the +olden"ge proper of pre-columbians villages, where advancedmetallurgy $alloy of copper with gold, or the merger of gold withplatinum% developed earlier than in )urope $D%, nor did estimatethat seHuence the meaning of ceramics that was emphasi#ed by:ewis ;organ $E%, one of the parents of "nthropology2 /"ll thetribes that never knew the art of pottery will be classified assavages0$The "ncient Bociety 6?EE%.

!ut some people suppose that crafting with ones hands is an

unthinking accomplishment, the opposite of intellectual production,as if brain and hands work separately, and they think ofarchaeological pottery as a mere handicraft without aesthetic. !utlet us consider "ristotle who, argumenting with "na4agoras, saidthat /It is not because he and she has hands that the human is themost intelligent of live beings, rather for being the most intelligent itis because we have hands $?%. "ctually pre-columbian ceramistsestablished a communication through their work of /feeling andrational at the same time0, to paraphrase "dela Cortina.

In >ccidental prehistory -let us say, before alphabetic writing,as in +reeces 4ii century !.C.- everything had its spirit2 plants andanimals, winds and seas, rains, as in pre-Columbian "mericawhere ceramics integrated with the patiently awaited crops, taking

its place in daily use in kitchen2 cuisine, clayware and storage offood.Ceramics Qthe merger of clay, water, air and fire- is

associated with farming and villages because they are stationary.Contact with the land easily leads to the creation of useful objectsthat are not readily transportable. Ceramics are hard andimpermeable, but fragile. This Huality makes it a friend ofarcheologists who classify pieces and fragments in groups,


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establishing chronological series with them when they find themwith organic elements making radiocarbon 9 dating more easilydone."t the north In Colombia $% and to the south in the

"ma#onian around the border with bra#il $


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$% in the hiltof his moistened crystal weapon,initials of the )arth werewritten.

'obody couldremember later2 the windforgot them, the language of waterwas buried, the keys got lost

or were flooded with silence or blood...$7%


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%ibliora !hy

1& 'c()*A#+ ;arshal3 /The +utemberg +ala4y, +enesis of the GomoTypographicus3 =niversity of Toronto Press, Toronto, D7.

2& ,.C*(-/('AT, +erardo3 Colombia indLgena - perLodoprehispSnico. in ;anual de Gistoria de Colombia, Tomo I, p 88-3 InstitutoColombiano de Cultura, !ogotS, E?, p9?

& A,C*A, Maime y ,./'A##, 'ina de3 Gerederos del Maguar

y la "naconda, !ogotS, Carlos &alencia, ?. p 7.4& G)./#, 'ide et al3 "thena Feview, &ol.8, no.72 Peopling of the

"mericas3 Pedra Nurada, !ra#il2 Paleoindians, Paintings, and Parado4es. atwww.athenapub.com6


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1- ),A6:#, Bara3 CerSmica Imagen y Conocimiento3 =niversidad )l!osHue, !ogotS,

1 T,.A#A, "lejandro. "FT) K) :" TI)FF", NotografLa3 Coleccin

CerSmica del ;useo "rHueolgico /Casa del ;arHuVs de Ban Morge0 de!ogotS, Coleccin editorial del Nondo de Promocin de la Cultura, volUmenes

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