América precolombina

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precolumbian, Muisca, pottery, ancient art

ÁREA INTERMEDIA

La zona arqueológica intermedia de América (Costa Rica, Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador y el norte de Brasil) es poco conocida. De América precolombina conocemos de los  aztecas en México, los Mayas de centro América, los Incas  del Perú, pero pocas personas han visto el arte antiguo pre-colombiano de Tumacos, Tayronas, Muiscas, Quimbayas, Calimas, Tolimas…  Y pocos saben que en Colombia al norte y en la zona fronteriza con  Brasil se ha encontrado la cerámica antigua de América, con fechas entre 5000/7500 años antes del presente (Funari: 1999; Raymond, Oyuela, Carmichael: 1994),  procesos extensos  de  habitación, contemporáneos o quizás anteriores al poblamiento de los valles del Nilo en Egipto y la antigua Mesopotamia (hoy Irak).

PreColumbian America

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The intermediate archaeological area of America (Costa rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and north of Brazil) is little known. Of Precolumbian America are well known Mexican Aztecs, Centro American Mayas and Peruvian Incas but very few people have seen ancient art from Colombian Tumacos, Tayronas, Muiscas… In Colombia and its Brazil bordering have been found the ancient pottery of America: 5,000/7,500 years before present (Funari:1999; Raymond, Oyuela, Carmichael: 1994), contemporary or maybe previous to the peopling of Nile’s valleys in Egypt and the former Mesopotamia.

Were Pre-columbians savages ?

People from Precolumbian Americas can’t be seen as savages, which is the common understanding, we do better remember the meaning of ceramics that Lewis Morgan -one of the parents of Anthropology- emphasized sentencing: «All the tribes that never knew the art of pottery will be classified as savages» (The Ancient society / 1877). … Actually, pre-Columbian ceramists connected with their work a «feeling and rational” communication.

But some people suppose crafting with hands as unthinking accomplishment opposite to intellectual production, as if brain and hands work separately; they think of archaeological pottery as a mere handicraft although not aesthetic… but let’s resemble Aristotle who argumenting with Anaxagoras said that «It is not because he and she have hands why the human is the most intelligent of live beings, rather for being the most intelligent it is because we have hands».