jan 1, 900 BC - Chavin de Huantar
Description:
Medium: Architectural complex: stoneRelief sculpture and Lanzon stone: granite
Nose ornament: gold alloy
Date:900-200 bce
Location: Peru
Artist: unknown
Content: relief sculpture: jaguar in shallow relief
Nose ornament:two snake head
Lanzon stone: blade shaped. Head of snake face of jaguar
Chavin de huantar: decorated with jaguar sculpture (symbol of power)
Context:A religous capital
Function:chavin de huantar:religious capital
Lanzon stone: pilgramage point
Nose ornament: ceremony, make people be supernatural being. Worn on nose.
Form:
Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 900 BC
Now
~ 2926 years ago
