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Olmec Civilization:
Height: 1.17 to 3.4 metres
Material: Basalt
Seventeen structures
Arranged lines or groups at major Olmec centers.
w: 20 Tons -
Material: basalt
Are called altars, but although many experts now believe they were thrones (Because they have flat tops with figures in the front). -
Olmec Civilization:
The Great Pyramid -
Teotihuacan civilization:
Height: 75 mts.
Material: Adobe, stone covered with stucco. -
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Teotihuacan civilization:
Height: 43 mts.
Material: Adobe, stone covered with stucco. -
Teotihuacan civilization:
Height: 21 mts -
Maya Civilization:
Height: 24 mts
Base: 55.5 mts
Temple: 6 mt -
Maya Civilization:
The "Talud Tablero" (architectural element) is located in such a way that its shadow is cast on the sides of the staircase, shaping the body of Kukulcán (the feathered serpent), whose head is sculpted at the foot of the Pyramid. -
Toltec and Maya Civilization:
Chacmools were often associated with sacrificial stones or thrones. -
Maya Civilization:
Palenque, Chiapas
Pakal funerary temple.
Height: 22mts.
Originally colored -
Maya civilization:
Tikal- Guatemala. Petén.
Height: 45 mts.
Stepped pyramid with 9 plattforms.
Material: Limestone -
Maya Civilization:
Uxmal, Yucatan
Height: 35 mts
Measures: 69 x 49 mts at its base -
Toltec civilization:
Rectangular building.
90 by 60 meters.
Three halls.
Materials: Clay bricks, wooden beams, otates, volcanic stone -
Toltec Civilization:
Architectural element, whose function was to support the structure of the temple of Tlahuizcalpantecutli -
Toltec Civilization:
Architectural element: Coatepantli is a Nahuatl word: "wall of serpents".
Theory: Used to mark the boundary between ceremonial and non-ceremonial land.
At Pyramid B -
Kevin Doniz Allende/ Gabriela Sánchez Franco/ Jorge Jiménez Olmos.
