Relief-Carved Bowl, 12th–9th century B.C., Mexico, Mesoamerica, Olmec, Ceramic, H. 4 7/16 x Diam. 5 15/16 in. (11.2 x 15 cm), Ceramics-Containers, This straight-sided blackware bowl features a long-beaked bird and a scroll design in low relief. The contrast in surface texture lends the vessel special appeal. The Olmec who lived in the coastal swamps of the southern Gulf of Mexico at the turn of the first millennium BCE established many of the cultural patterns built upon by subsequent Mesoamerican peoples
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Relief-Carved Bowl, 12th–9th century B.C, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Olmec, Ceramic, H, 4 7/16 x Diam, 5 15/16, 11.2 15 cm, Ceramics-Containers, straight-sided, blackware, bowl, features, long-beaked bird, scroll design, low relief, contrast, surface texture, lends, vessel special, appeal, lived, coastal swamps, southern Gulf, turn, first millennium, BCE, established, cultural patterns, built, upon, subsequent Mesoamerican, peoples
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