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Tlatilco figurines
[Voiceover] We're in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, and we're looking at some of the most extraordinary little clay figurines that were from a village in this area in the Valley of Mexico, about 3,000 years ago.발음듣기
[Voiceover] The name of the town was Tlatilco and it had hundreds of burials where you find these amazing figurines.발음듣기
[Voiceover] The figurines have extraordinary variety but they give us an insight into what was important to people 3,000 years ago.발음듣기
[Voiceover] What we're seeing at Tlatilco is one of the earliest developments of a wide array of objects that display this very advanced visual expression.발음듣기
And so right now we're standing in front of a series of figurines of individuals with two faces or two heads.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And it's a very representative type of Tlatilco female figurine, where you have the narrow waist, the broad hips, traces of paint on the face, on the incised hair.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Now this is clay and it would've been incised with a sharp instrument to create, for instance, the lines of the hair, and pinched to created forms like the nose.발음듣기
[Voiceover] You typically see red, yellow or black pigment, and then decorations where you had roller stamps, where you could roll designs over the various surfaces.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Some of the figures that we're seeing here don't actually have a combined double face, but have two heads.발음듣기
[Voiceover] One of the figurines that we're looking at right now you have a single body, so only two legs, two arms, two breasts, but then two individual heads.발음듣기
[Voiceover] We really don't know what this means, because we don't have a written record to go with this.발음듣기
[Voiceover] And this is a great example of where the visual archaeological record is one of the main ways in which we're able to know about this culture.발음듣기
[Voiceover] I'm really taken by this small, clay object that is a single, mask-like form, but is bifurcated, that is, divided right down the middle.발음듣기
[Voiceover] On the left, you see the face alive, and on the right side, a skeletonized face.발음듣기
I think in the 21st century, when we use that term we're often thinking about a kind of East-Asian notion of duality, of the yin and the yang.발음듣기
But here in Mexico, what do we know about duality in later cultures, where we do have a better record?발음듣기
[Voiceover] Well, if we're kind of making broad generalizations around this idea of duality.발음듣기
[Voiceover] Exactly, that there is this concept that you see consistently about the cycle of life, and this idea of regeneration and rebirth.발음듣기
[Voiceover] As I look at this mask, and it's too small to be worn, it would actually fit comfortably in the palm of my hand, the right side is terrifying.발음듣기
[Voiceover] The lip has been pulled open as if it is this grimace, which to us reads as threatening or a little terrifying.발음듣기
[Voiceover] What we find in most in most of these Tlatilco figurines are scenes of daily life and very humorous or charming figurines.발음듣기
[Voiceover] There is that small infant in what looks to be a crib, a woman who seems to be kissing a small dog, and another that cradles the dog.발음듣기
Here we see not only people in daily life but people engaged in types of activities that are truly more intimate.발음듣기
[Voiceover] It's interesting what you're saying because there's so much that carries from the early cultures to the later cultures, but that's not true here.발음듣기
Tlatilco is not necessarily influencing, at least, as far as we know right now, later cultures in the same way that say, the Olmec are.발음듣기
[Voiceover] I mean at this point, they're living more sedentary lives here, say in the village of Tlatilco, and so they're able to create ceramics.발음듣기
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