Olmec mask (Olmec-style mask)

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(jazzy piano music) [Voiceover] We're in the museum of the Templo Mayor, the main Aztec temple in what is now Mexico City, looking at a small, green, stone sculpture of a human face.발음듣기

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And although this was found buried as a kind of offering in the temple precinct, what we're looking at is something from a far older culture, older even than the Aztecs.발음듣기

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[Voiceover] This mask actually belonged to the Olmec culture, which started thriving somewhere between 1500 and 1200 B.C.E.발음듣기

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So, more than 1500 years before the Aztecs, the Olmecs were thriving along the Gulf Coast of Mexico, not even Central Mexico, where the Aztecs are later building their capital city.발음듣기

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[Voiceover] So this is distant both in terms of geography, but it's also really distant in terms of time.발음듣기

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For the Aztecs, looking back to the Olmecs is something akin to us in the modern era looking back to the ancient Romans.발음듣기

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[Voiceover] This mask is not much bigger than the palm of my hand.발음듣기

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It's a traditional Olmec mask, and it's made in this beautiful green stone.발음듣기

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It's polished. It's a great example of Olmec features, like upturned lips, this almost-baby face, almond eyes, the cleft in the head.발음듣기

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And what's remarkable is that the Aztecs were actually collecting these objects, and then ritually burying them at certain points, and this object would've been one of many buried in a specific offering.발음듣기

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[Voiceover] It shows us that the Aztecs had a reverence for the ancient cultures that came before them, that they were thinking historically.발음듣기

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[Voiceover] And that's true, not only that they were looking to the Olmec, the kind of "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, 발음듣기

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but they were also looking to, say, the city of Teotihuacán and its inhabitants, that was flourishing hundreds and hundreds of years before the Aztec.발음듣기

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[Voiceover] That's the city famous because of its enormous pyramids.발음듣기

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[Voiceover] And it was where the Aztecs thought the Fifth Era, or the Sun, was born, and they called it The City of the Gods. That's what "Teotihuacán" means.발음듣기

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And as we look here around the galleries, we can see other masks that were buried in some of these offerings.발음듣기

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They were taken from the city of Teotihuacán as well.발음듣기

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[Voiceover] So the Aztecs were collecting objects from both Central Mexico, but also from quite a distance.발음듣기

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They were importing materials from what is now the southwest of the United States.발음듣기

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They were bringing objects up from the Yucatán.발음듣기

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The divisions that we think of in the modern world did not exist in the same way.발음듣기

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[Voiceover] It's a great example, not only of their archaeizing or their looking to the past, but also these vast trade networks throughout Mesoamerica. (jazzy piano music) 발음듣기

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