Mexican Clay Pottery Wall Plaque Aztec Calendar Pre Columbian Style 12in For Sale

• This is a unique, rustic terracotta clay pottery wall plaque
• Handmade in Mexico from the Teotihuacan region
• Aztec calendar chiseled in stone pattern
• A modern day potters interpretation of pre-columbian style pottery
• A lot of fine detail in this one
• A unique piece for your southwest pottery or Mexican folk art collection
• Thick, strong-fired quality
• 10 x 12 x 2"
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If you are interested in a little history of Teotihuacan, read further:Teotihuacan (where this piece is from) was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city located in a sub valley of the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico. Although it is a subject of debate whether Teotihuacan was the center of a state empire, its influence throughout Mesoamericais well documented. It is still a mystery as to who built this amazing city.It was built by hand more than a thousand years before the swooping arrival of the Nahuatl-speaking Aztec in central Mexico. But it was the Aztec, descending on the abandoned site, no doubt falling awestruck by what they saw, who gave it a name: Teotihuacan. The cityreached its zenith between 100 B.C. and A.D. 650 and supported a population of a hundred thousand.No matterits principal builders, scholars and evidence suggest that Teotihuacan hosted a patchwork of cultures including the Maya, Mixtec, and Zapotec. One theory says an erupting volcano forced a wave of immigrants into the Teotihuacanvalley and that those refugees either built or bolstered the city. The city and the archaeological site are located in what is now the San Juan Teotihuacan municipality in the State of Mexico approximately 25 miles northeast of Mexico City. The site covers a total surface area of 32 square miles and was designated aUNESCO World Heritage Sitein 1987. It is known today asthe site of many of the most architecturally significantMesoamerican pyramidsbuilt in thepre-Columbian America, including the Pyramid of the Sun.