Chalcatzingo Monument 413D ModelNoAI
Chalcatzingo, Morelos, Mexico Middle Formative Period The site contains one of the most extensive collections of Middle Formative period (c. 900-500 BC) bas-relief stone sculpture outside of the Olmec Gulf Coast lowlands.
Monument 41 shows three felines, possibly pumas, with long tails, iconography present in ears and with differing iconography present above the eye, and with a beak-like mouths/mask elements and with prominent fangs. These cats are perhaps shapeshifting or are fantastical in nature. The felines have cloud ( “S” shaped symbols above) and to the right, and edges appear broken or modified from larger carving, with elements broken off with a shaped appearance.
Project collaborative- USF Travis Doering, Lori Collins, Jorge Gonzalez and Noelia Garcia, along with INAH Arqueólogo Mario Córdova Tello - Director del Proyecto Arqueológico Chalcatzingo and Arqueóloga Carolina Meza Rodríguez - Responsable Operativo de la Z. A. Chalcatzingo.
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