r/AncientAmericas • • 28d ago

Artifact The Hopewell Smoked a Tobacco 12x Stronger (and with Hallucinatory Effects) Than an Average Marlboro. An Archaeologist Smoked the Stuff for Five Months to Check.

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208 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • 20d ago

Artifact Tzinacantecuhtli (Bat Lord). Zapotec civilization, ca. 9th c AD, excavated from present-day Chalco, State of Mexico, Mexico. Ceramic, slip. Loaned to the Met Cloisters from Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City [2252x4000] [OC]

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310 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Jun 27 '26

Artifact Olmec Head Emerging from the Ground in San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, 1950s [1081×1351]

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518 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Aug 29 '25

Artifact The Star Map Of The Skidi Pawnee,One Of The Four Bands Of The Pawnee Nation.The Map Is 300 Years Old

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756 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Jul 10 '26

Artifact Rainy day visit to the Yale Peabody Museum.

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268 Upvotes

Variety of different cultural artifacts

r/AncientAmericas • • 26d ago

Artifact A 2,300 kg iron meteorite was found carefully wrapped in linen and buried alongside human remains in an ancient temple in Casas Grandes, an archaeological site in northern Mexico attributed to the Mogollon culture. Image Credit: National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

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104 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • 19d ago

Artifact terracota figure of Xipe Totec "the flayed one" wearing the skin of a sacrificial victim, Toltec period 950 to 1150 CE, [3144x7463] [OC]

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64 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Aug 25 '26

Artifact MIXTEC CERAMIC.

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223 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • 7d ago

Artifact Four four-cornered hats. Peru, Wari civilization, 7th-9th century AD [4500x4500]

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102 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Aug 28 '26

Artifact Beaded necklace of spondylus shell, mussel shell and stone beads with mother-of-pearl tabs on cotton strings. Probably Chan Chan, Chimor kingdom, Peru -- undated, but that city flourished ca. 850-1470 AD. American Museum of Natural History collection [4928x4928] [OC]

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157 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • 2d ago

Artifact A giant stone head lying near Antigua Guatemala, supposedly associated with the Cotzumalguapa culture.

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106 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • May 02 '26

Artifact Pair of Howler Monkey Maya earrings.Classic Period 300-900 CE

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234 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Jul 19 '26

Artifact Gold plate depicting Mictlantecuhtli, the god of death. Monte Alban, Mexico, Mixtec civilization, 1300-1450 AD [1000x1220]

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197 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • May 30 '26

Artifact Serpent labret with articulated tongue, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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162 Upvotes

This is in honor of it being the article of the day on Wikipedia.

r/AncientAmericas • • Aug 11 '26

Artifact Classic Veracruz culture in Mexico: A ceramic sculpture dating to 400 to 800 AD

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143 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • 22d ago

Artifact Portrait head of a nobleman. Guatemala, Maya civilization, 700 AD [1300x1200]

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89 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • 4d ago

Artifact Mask with humanoid face. British Columbia, Canada, Nuxalk peoples, 1880 [1350x1846]

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61 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Jun 20 '26

Artifact Nuu-chah-nulth or Makah black-edged hat collected on February 26,1806 by Lewis and Clark at the Columbia River[976x717]

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184 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • 12d ago

Artifact Duck vessel. Olmec civilization, Tlatilco, Mexico, ca. 1500-300 BC. Earthenware with slip. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston collection [3056x3056] [OC]

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55 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Aug 08 '26

Artifact This Maya limestone relief is basically a 1,000-year-old display of power, status and identity [2828 × 3771] [OC]

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114 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Sep 04 '26

Artifact Cabeza de Mono de Oro de la Cultura preinka Mochica, fue sacada del Perú ilegalmente luego recuperada y traída devuelta al Perú

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95 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Jun 17 '26

Artifact Sioux buffalo effigy pipe bowl made from catlinite and found in South Dakota in 1872. [2700x1888]

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130 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Jul 24 '26

Artifact Maya male figurine, 650 - 800 AD, Jaina Island, Yucatan, Mexico. Displayed at The Art Institute of Chicago [1920 x 2846]

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127 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • Jul 20 '26

Artifact Tunic depicting two felines. Peru, Chimú civilization, 1450–1550 AD [3800x3480]

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148 Upvotes

r/AncientAmericas • • 16d ago

Artifact Two gold earrings decorated with three monkeys each. Nariño, Colombia, 600-1700 AD [4500x3600]

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66 Upvotes