Western Pre-Hispanic Sculpture. Replica of the Museum of hotsell Anthropology in Mexico City.

This sculpture is a replica of the pre-Hispanic sculptures found in the anthropology museum located in Mexico City.

This sculpture comes from El Opeño, a site that is located in Jacona de Plancarte hotsell, a municipality of the Mexican state of Michoacán located in the Zamora Valley. It gives its name to a pre-Columbian culture known especially for the ceramic materials found in the funerary complexes in the area, which have been dated to the Late Preclassic of Mesoamerica. The importance of El Opeño in Mesoamerican archeology lies in its antiquity and in the wide diffusion of its style, contemporary with other indigenous cultural developments such as the Capacha culture and prior to the Chupícuaro culture that developed in the Bajío.

El Opeño with its funerary architecture antecedent to the shooting tombs, and its delicate clay human sculptures, among which the figures of ball players stand out and became a characteristic of Western Mexico; by the Chupícuaro culture with its ceramics decorated with elegant geometric designs and its clay sculptures, mainly of female figures.

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