Ceremonial Metate | Honduras; Maya (?) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Known examples come from northwestern Honduras. This is the region where the ancient Maya and the peoples of Central America diverged culturally. The two differing cultural traditions can be seen here in a synthesis that produced this elaborately carved metate. Metates were quite common in Precolumbian Central America while they were not in the Maya realm. Yet this .
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