Southwest Museum archaeologist Anne Watkins holds an enormous obsidian blade, found by the Wilder brothers (Karok Indians) after it was unearthed by an earthquake in northern California. Purchased by Gen. Charles Reeve and donated by him to the Autry Museum of the American West [808x1584]Fuckoff555

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Southwest Museum archaeologist Anne Watkins holds an enormous obsidian blade, found by the Wilder brothers (Karok Indians) after it was unearthed by an earthquake in northern California. Purchased by Gen. Charles Reeve and donated by him to the Autry Museum of the American West [808x1584]

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A Maya Eccentric flint of a cave opening to the Otherworld surrounded by heads of K'awiil. Classic Period, c. 450-800 CE, from the Merrin Gallery [686x900]

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A Nubian necklace from Sudan, 50–320 CE. Mqde of carnelian, travertine (Egyptian alabaster), and obsidian. Now housed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston [1210x1600]

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Woman buried with swaddled baby, Wennungen, Germany, 2575-2450 BCE. For protection, the swaddling sling was decorated with dog teeth from over 50 animals [928x1650]

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The "Princess of Khok Phanom Di" is the name given to a woman who was found buried at Khok Phanom Di in Thailand. The woman, who died 3600 years ago, was interred with over 120,000 beads, an anvil, burnishing stones, clay preforms, and pottery with exotic trace-element composition [4262x4150]

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All of the 17 known Olmec colossal heads discovered so far. The heads date from at least 900 BCE, and it is thought that they represent portraits of powerful individual Olmec rulers. The head, in the 1st picture, is the largest of them all, measuring 3.4 m in height and weighs 40 tons [2205x2538]

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An ancient Egyptian curved diorite gneiss bowl with five in-turned rim sections. Found in tomb 1024 at Giza Necropolis, Fourth Dynasty (ca. 2613–2494 BCE) or earlier, now housed at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in California [1504x1937]

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In 62 BCE, King Antiochus I of Commagene built on top of the 2,134-metre-high Mount Nemrut, in Turkey, a 50 m high funerary mound of stone chips flanked by huge statues 8–9-metre high of himself, 2 lions, 2 eagles, and various composite Greek and Iranian gods [1600x3113]

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A stone relief of four figures, found at the archaeological site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. 6000-5500 BCE, now housed at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara [1676x2000]

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A pre-Columbian or colonial obsidian mirror now housed at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Documentary investigations revealed that the lens was sent in 1737 from Quito, Ecuador, to France by members of the Godin–La Condamine geodesic expedition [1400x1820]

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Model of equipment for Opening-of-Mouth ceremony: 3 rock crystal vessels and one obsidian vessel; one pink limestone implement and one schist implement; set into recesses in rectangular limestone tablet. From the Tomb of Idy in Abydos, Egypt. 6th Dynasty (c. 2345-2181 BCE), British Museum [802x1068]

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The Brynhildsvollen Dagger from Røros in Central Norway. The dagger or the red-green slate raw material must have been imported either from North Norway or Norrland in Sweden in the Late Stone Age (5000-2000 BCE). Now housed at the NTNU University Museum in Norway [1174x2462]

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Some of the collection of gold ornaments and vessels, made during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE), and now housed at the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi'an, China [5013x9686]

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A Chachapoya cliffside tomb located at Diablo Wasi in Peru, 8th-15th century CE [720x900]

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The Minakuchi rapier, believed to have been made in Japan in the early Edo period (first half of the 17th century CE) . It is currently on loan from the Fujisaka Shrine to the Minakuchi History and Folklore Museum in Japan [376x884]

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Malinalco archeological site, in Mexico, is a sanctuary complex built in a hill by the Aztecs from the mid 15th to the beginnings of the 16th century CE. The site contains 6 buildings, but the main one is the Cuauhcalli, which is significant in that it is carved out of the hill itself [658x1315]

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A pottery bottle from the Songze culture (ca. 3800–3300 BCE). Now housed at the Jiaxing Museum in China [1338x2900]

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Intricate wall carvings at the Ajitnatha temple in Gujarat, India. The temple was constructed in 1161 CE by the Solanki king Kumarapala, under the advice of his teacher, Acharya Hemachandra [768x1024]

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The Great Jaguar of Cotzumalguapa located at the entrance of the El Baúl Museum in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in Guatemala. The Maya sculpture dates back to the Late Classic Period (ca. 650-950 CE) [513x900]

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A finely carved double seat monolith is found on the upper platform of the Vilcashuamán Usnu in Peru. According to the chronicles, it was used by the Inca and his colla (or qoya, the queen), to pray. 15th-16th century CE [725x900]

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A Langyao red-glazed bottle vase. Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662-1722 CE), now housed at the Yuchengtang Museum in China [1080x1620]

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A going-away dress, consisting of bodice and matching skirt, in fine blue wool broadcloth decorated with a scrolling border design in applied slightly purple-blue solid cut pile silk velvet, navy ribbed silk, wide and narrow navy silk braids. Made in 1899 CE, Glasgow Museums [778x2041]

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A blackground thangka of Bernagchen Mahakala. Distemper and gold on cloth. Tibet, 18th century CE, sold at Bonhams in 2020 [2035x2880]

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A Haida bowl made of a dall mountain sheep horn. From Haida Gwaai in Canada, ca. 1840–1860 CE, now housed at the Fenimore Art Museum in New York [3472x5815]

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Copper plaques from Argentina. Aguada culture, 500-900 CE [300× 817]

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