Saturday, December 6, 2003

Not Tonight... Feeling a bit under the weather, Christmas shopping, etc... OK, just one more. 10:54:02 PM

Astronomical Surface Decorations on Ceramics, Mesoamerica part III Back at the Kerr Maya Vase Archive... The search allows one to look for iconographic elements which includes a "Sky band with star glyphs." Doing so brings up 55 vases! While they don't seem to be Olmec, it is hard not to skip ahead to the later Mesoameric cultures to look into this promising avenue further! More on this later...or you can go ahead and take a look for yourself- 12:10:54 AM

Astronomical Surface Decorations on Ceramics, Mesoamerica part II Not having much luck with the Olmecs...seems we have more sculptural items from them, in stone, than pottery/ceramics. I did find a wonderful site that had some roll out pictures of Olmec surface decorations...I'll need to check to see if they have any astronomical reference. Justin Kerr's Maya Vase Archives is well worth a visit.   I did a search for "Olemc" and got 11 vases. Vase 1676.00 has a fish icon with star like shapes above.  Here's one photo, you'll need to use the database for the roll out and other info. 12:01:17 AM