on a big hill, fortified, stucco on walls and stone carved shell fish, dry moats, ramparts, barrier walls

-roads (sacbeh)

-linear layout similar to mayan sites

3 total, found rings, ha ha and had a drain

“hacha” ballcourt sculptures=>scarlet macaw features (veracruz) *same as in Copan

-rings tenoned (attached?) onto walls of ballcourts

-drain=>possible ritual flooding of ballcourt

-maqueta, running liquid over it

-stone carved shellfish (starfish)=>relates ballcourt to watery underworld

-bat sculptures on rings, symbols of the underworld

-quetzal (birds) sculptures

Stones carved in the shapes of animals (butterfly/jaguar/plumed-serpent)

Corners of bldg resemble El Tajin, Veracruz,-talud-tablera architecture with Talud emphasis

Bar -mat is wrapped around a wooden pole; signifies royalty or nobility; political elites of the Maya would sit on that

Tlaloc sculptures, human wearing war serpent headdress

-cartouche w/day sign; tump-line strap; numbers *each year named by one of four day signs. 52 yr calendar (Codex Mendoza)

-Signs: Reed; Flint; House; Rabbit <==(year bearers)

-new fire event on year one rabbit, day two snake; new fire drilling on date 2reed.

-Signifies the end of a 52 year cycle: period ending and time of renewal

-also a time where people throw out all their shit to welcome the new cycle. 

-Participants climb on top of a really tall pole and fall down while tied to some rope. Then one guy stays on top of the pole to dance and play a flute. The ‘flyers’ symbolize year bearers. The Volador pole as a giant fire drill.

Puebla (olmeca-xicalanca)

the drinkers" mural terminal epic classic

-Gulf coast style Stelae

structure on building like talud- tablero, big in el tajin resembles pyramid of the Earth Serpent, 17 ball courts, Buildings A and B roofs with poured concrete (very rare)

The professor showed us the extended version of a muppet opening on youtube in class Friday. The important point to take away away from this is that there are many “niches” on the outside of the pyramid. These niches could fit at least a single person in it. 

^^^sculptural panels; curvilinear style 

There was more than a dozen ballcourts found in this location. The most ever found in a single site. (Not sure about this one) 17 ball courts, South ball court had Das-relief sculptural panels, mythological scenes, sacrifice origin of corn, Tlaloc blood-letting from phallus into a pool of water.

 carved like jig saw puzzles, showed sacrifice ( corn growing from a body), macaw warrior