[Aztlan] Oldest work of art in North America found?

[David Hixson]

Allan and fellow Listeros,

The Tequixquiac Sacrum is also a commonly referenced candidate for the earliest work of art in North America.  I thought I had a photo of it on my website, but apparently not.  Mesoweb has a nice photo with a short description on their website (URL below).  Back in 1998 this carved camelid sacrum sat unlabled in a large case of uncarved pleistocene bones in the early man section of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico city.  I believe it has since been given its own display.

http://www.mesoweb.com/features/jpl/113.html

-Dave
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David R. Hixson
PhD Candidate
Tulane Anthropology
www.mesoamerican-archives.com


> Then there is the famous engraved mammoth pelvis found at
> Valsequillo in the 1950s by Juan Armenta Camacho. That
> engraving was a virtual bestiary of late Pleistocene fauna
> which included mammoths with 4 tusks (probably gomphotheres
> which were known to have survived in South America until
> Paleoamerican times). That engraved bone was featured in
> Time Magazine before the Classic Valsequillo excavations
> back in the 1960s.
> 
> Allan Shumaker