The Ancient Ceramics of West Mexico
By Robert Pickering, Ephraim Cuevas
Corpse-eating insects and mineral stains help a forensic anthropologist and a chemist determine the authenticity of 2,000-year-old figurines
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May-June 2003
Volume 91, Number 3
Page 242
DOI: 10.1511/2003.44.242
If you look through an auction catalogue from Sotheby's or Christie's, you'll invariably come across listings for 2,000-year-old ceramic figurines from West Mexico. Often beautifully made, the figures typically depict human forms, playing music or games, or engaging in what appear to be rituals.
Courtesy of R. Wicker/Denver Museum of Nature and Science
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