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Miniatures such as this one, presumably representing a temple, are very common in the Mezcala tradition. The clean lines and colonnaded "façades" are like nothing ever produced elsewhere in Mesoamerica.




Temple miniature
Mezcala
Middle Pre-Classic (400-100 B.C.)
Mezcala river basin, State of Guerrero
Greenstone
12.8 cm.
National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.

Photo © Jorge Pérez de Lara