Chavín de Huántar
Northern highlands, Peru
Chavín
900-200 BCE
Stone (architectural complex); granite (Lanzón and sculpture); hammered gold alloy (jewelry)
Mesa Verde cliff dwellings
Montezuma County, Colorado
Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)
4500-1300 CE
Sandstone
Yaxchilán
Chiapas, Mexico
Maya
725 CE
Limestone (architectural complex)
Great Serpent Mound
Adams County, southern Ohio
Mississippian (Eastern Woodlands)
c. 1070 CE
Earthwork/effigy mound
Templo Mayor (Main Temple)
Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City, Mexico)
Mexica (Aztec)
1375-1520 CE
Stone (temple); volcanic stone (The Coyolxauhqui Stone); jadeite (Olmec-style mask); basalt (Calendar Stone)
Ruler’s feather headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II)
Mexica (Aztec)
1428-1520 CE
Feathers (quetzal and cotinga) and gold
City of Cusco, including Qorikancha (Inka main temple), Santo Domingo (Spanish colonial convent), and Walls at Saqsa Waman (Sacsayhuaman)
City of Machu Picchu
Central highlands, Peru
Inka
c. 1450-1540 CE
Granite (architectural complex)
All-T’oqapu tunic
Inka
1450-1540 CE
Camelid fiber and cotton
Bandolier bag
Lenape (Delaware tribe, Eastern Woodlands)
c. 1850 CE
Beadwork on leather
transformation mask
Kwakwaka’wakw, Northwest coast of Canada
late 19th century CE
wood, paint, and string
Painted elk hide
attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody)
Eastern Shoshone, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
c. 1890-1900 CE
Painted elk hide
Black-on-black ceramic vessel
Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez
Tewa, Puebloan
San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico
c. mid-20th century CE
Blackware ceramic