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Chavin Art diffusion center was from a ancient temple built about 900 BC at “Chavin de Huantar” now a days a modern city from where this art style got its name. Its ancient origin probably evolved from Sechin because some of its early human representations have the same shape as similar figures in the Sechin temple built about one thousand years early.
Millenniums later the population of this region most likely also descendant of Sechin, forced by the Mochica civilization expansion, originated the Recuay civilization, very close to where is “Chavin de Huantar”.
This present ceramic at left is at the Local museum in the temple area of “Chavin de Huantar” city.
Chavin Art style is the mayor art characteristics that ever influenced most of ancient Peru’s territory from the tip north to what is Ica today an area south of Lima probably around 200 to 300 kilometers or even more, it is hard to precise because with modern systems of investigation, every day there is a new surprise in relation to up coming discoveries in Peru that takes 2,000 years farther than thought, that means up to 6,000 thousand yeas the time when city construction started.
This peace of ceramic represents a face, has human and feline characteristics, the tooth apparently represent feline fangs but the one below shapes kike a serpent tooth also has two serpent heads in the forehead apparently coming from the eyes or are part of the nose.
The nose also has a peculiar look as a bird peak that gives it the fourth characteristic of the animals that in an imaginary or symbolic way represent the four main constellations of the Zodiac.
Therefore, this ceramic face at left is representing a cosmogony deity.
Chavin artist used different materials for their manifestations; they used ceramics, cloth for their garments, building and decorative stone, gold jewelry, sea shells and a variety of other resources it was a totally developed artistic civilization.
The previous ceramic (red face) and the Golden Hands are at the local museum of Kuntur wasi between the Peruvian northern cities Pacasmayo and Cajamarca.
Millenniums later the population of this region most likely also descendant of Sechin, forced by the Mochica civilization expansion, originated the Recuay civilization, very close to where is “Chavin de Huantar”.
This present ceramic at left is at the Local museum in the temple area of “Chavin de Huantar” city.
Chavin Art style is the mayor art characteristics that ever influenced most of ancient Peru’s territory from the tip north to what is Ica today an area south of Lima probably around 200 to 300 kilometers or even more, it is hard to precise because with modern systems of investigation, every day there is a new surprise in relation to up coming discoveries in Peru that takes 2,000 years farther than thought, that means up to 6,000 thousand yeas the time when city construction started.
This peace of ceramic represents a face, has human and feline characteristics, the tooth apparently represent feline fangs but the one below shapes kike a serpent tooth also has two serpent heads in the forehead apparently coming from the eyes or are part of the nose.
The nose also has a peculiar look as a bird peak that gives it the fourth characteristic of the animals that in an imaginary or symbolic way represent the four main constellations of the Zodiac.
Therefore, this ceramic face at left is representing a cosmogony deity.
Chavin artist used different materials for their manifestations; they used ceramics, cloth for their garments, building and decorative stone, gold jewelry, sea shells and a variety of other resources it was a totally developed artistic civilization.
The previous ceramic (red face) and the Golden Hands are at the local museum of Kuntur wasi between the Peruvian northern cities Pacasmayo and Cajamarca.
