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(Detroit Institute of Arts/ Founders Society Purchase/ The Bridgeman Art Library)
Culture: Western Shaft Tomb
Location: Mexico
Date: 100 B.C.-A.D. 400
For more than 1,000 years, a culture flourished in what are now the western Mexican states of Jalisco, Nayarit, and parts of Colima. Most of what we know about the culture comes from artifacts taken from shaft tombs—usually by tomb raiders—including examples of heavily tattooed hollow ceramic figurines. Some scholars belie
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