Pre-Columbian - All Antiquities for Sale

To distinguish the major characteristics of pre-Columbian civilizations, three general chronological divisions have been widely used: the “Pre-Classic,” or Formative, period (ca. 1500 b.c. to 300 A.D.); the “Classic,” or Florescent, period (ca. 300 to 900 A.D.); and the “Post-Classic” period (ca. 900 to 1540 A.D.). Outstanding in Pre-Columbian artistic development were architecture, sculpture, painting, and decorative arts such as pottery, metalwork, and textiles. Despite the great range and variety of artwork, certain characteristics were repeated throughout the region, namely a preference for angular, linear patterns, and three-dimensional ceramics.

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Spondylus Shell Necklace From Peru	Chancay Style Ancient Textile Doll	Jamacoaque Seated Figure	Jaina Figural Lord Whistle	Proto-Mayan Seated Figure	Inca Canopa Semi-Transluscent
Inca Pottery Offerendo	Mayan Javalina Whistle	Ancient Peruvian Silver Head Kero	How to Buy Ancient Art	Costa Rican Zoomorphic Bowl	Inca Blackware Aryballos
Fabulous Nazca Bird-Form Vessel	Nazca Wool and Feather Cap	Large Chorrera Spouted Vessel	Rare Bahia/ Manabi, Figural Vessel	Huge Chupicuaro Bi-Chrome Tripod	Stunning Proto-Nazca Textile Frog
Long Moche Textile Sash	Inca Silver Diadem	Pre-Columbian Textile Bag - North Coast	Proto Nazca Tie-Dye Textile Fragment A	Costa Rica Decorated Vase	Pair of Panamanian Long Necked Amphoras
Unusual Cocle Painted Bowl	Colima Pottery Dance Grouping	Choice Mayan Ulua Valley Pedestal Bowl	Paracas Pottery Bowl w/ Hand Print	Important Carved Mayan Cylinder	Rare Sican Textile Roundel
Michoacan Bowl with Rare Motif	Fine Mayan Green Jade Head	Chimu Pottery Parrot Stirrup Vessel	Chimu / Inca Drum-Shaped Canteen	Moche Copper Figure of Warrior	Rare Aztec Stone Bowl - Flower Form
Pre-Columbian Nazca Pottery Cup - Choice!	Moche I Seated Figure, Inlaid Detailing	Outstanding Decorated Quimbaya Slab Figure	Moche Bone Fist, Turquoise Inlay	Valdivia Venus Figure - Ecuador	Standing Colima Culture Figural Whistle
Chancay Whistling Vessel - Bird	Costa Rican Cast Copper Harpy Eagle	Choice Colima Pottery Flat w/ Metate	Superb Pair Tlatilco Pottery Heads	Post-Classic Mayan Plumbate Olla	Nazca Trophy Head Polychrome Cup
Rare Chimu Sewing Basket - Original Textile Cover	Rare Cocle Pottery Whistle - Bird Form	Mayan Chert Stone Dagger	Nazca Polychrome Cup with Trophy Head	Incredible Chimu Copper and Wood Tumi	Incredibly Rare Nazca Child's Sandals
Pre-Columbian Colima Miniature Pottery Dog	Inca Wooden Snuff Tray and Inhaler	Inca Wooden Kero - Shell Inlays	Miniature Nazca Polychrome Bowls (pair)	Mayan Incised Cylinder	Pre-Columbian Chimu Incised Tumi
Chupicuaro Polychrome Tripod Vessel	Mayan Polychrome Peten Bowl	Costa Rican Jade Bead Necklace	Huari Textile Four Corner Pile Hat	Mayan Polychrome Tripod Plate	La Aguada Incised Bowl - Argentina
Peruvian Viru Erotic Vessel	Nazca / Huari Tumpline Tassels	Moche Handless Man Vessel	Chimu Silver Head Kero	Vicus Double-Chambered Bat Whistle	Chavin/Salinar Double-Chambered Stirrup
Pre-Columbian Mini Colima Flat	Moche Canteen with Warrior	Mezcala Jadeite Earspools / Flares	Maya Deity Rattle	Mezcala Stone Axe God	Valdivian Terracotta Venus Figure
Inca Pottery Offerendo w/ People	Colima Bedded Female Figure	Chavin Shaman Stirrup Vessel	Pre-Columbian Colima Rattle	Pre-Columbian Chimu Deer Effigy	Guerrero Stone Figure / Axe God
Pachacamac Textile Fragment	Nayarit Pottery Cylinder	Huari Portrait Head Vessel	Tiwanaku Textile Belt Fragment	Pre-Columbian Chancay Fisherman Urn	Peruvian Chimu Silver Diadems - Pr.
Chancay Coca Bag / Chuspa	Nazca Polychrome Bowl - Hummingbirds	Chavin Stone Shaman Transformation - Frog, Snake	Moche IV Fineline Fox Warrior	Moche IV Portrait Vessel	Chavin Gold Pectoral Disc
Huari Gold Armband - Skeleton Masks	Moche V Fineline, El Morro de Peten	Chancay Textile Cloth Doll	Narino Pottery Bowl w/ Warrior	Quimbaya Standing Male Figure	Chimu Bone Balance Beam, Orig. Mesh
Framed Chancay Painted Textile	Calima Bridge-Spout Whistling Vessel	Peruvian Belt Fragment - Zoomorphs	Sican / Lambayeque Stirrup - Naylamp	Olmec Standing Jade Figure	Primitive Stone Axe - Surinam(e)
Chavin Stirrup - Hallucinogenic Vines	Chancay Textile Fragment - Zoomorphs	Peruvian Textile Fragment - Vibrant	Chimu Balance Beam, Human-Like Creatures	Jalisco Ameca Style Seated Female Figure	Chupicuaro Tripod Bowl
Narino Bullet Amphora - Miniature Form!	Pre-Columbian Colima Seated Flat Figure	Chimu Bronze Lime Dipper, Bird Finial	Moche III / IV Warrior Single Spouted Jar	Quimbaya Standing Female Figure	Chupicuaro Polychrome Female Figure
Offrenda Painted Plate - Chuquibamba	Cupisnique / Chavin Single Spout Vessel	Nazca Polychrome Olla - Harvest Dance	Moche Stirrup Effigy, Muscovy Duck	Sican Silver Kero - Rows of Stars	Colima Flat Figure
Mayan Polychrome Cylinder from Copan	Peruvian Offrenda - Radiating Sun	Michoacan Venus Figure	Colima Maternity Idol	Peruvian Stone Canopa / Votive	Vera Cruz Seated Female Figure
Costa Rican Tripod Vessel, Rattle Legs	Mezcala Stone Idol Pendant	Chimu Pre-Columbian Silver Kero	Nazca Polychrome Bowl - Band of Owls	Pre-Columbian Gold Turtle - Chiriqui-Diquis	Colima Tri-Lobed Redware Vessel
Chorrera Long-Neck Redware Vessel	Mezcala Jade Pendant - Two Heads	Teotihuacan Eccentric Flint Human Figure	Set of 4 Mochica Silver Lime Spoons	Shaman Spirit Flute, Colombia-Tairona	Chupicuaro Tri-lobe Jar, Ex Peter Wray
Inca Blackware Bottle - Rare Form	Proto-Nazca Bridge-Spouted Vessel	Mayan Stone Dagger from Belize	Chimu Inca Shell Necklace With Silver Tweezers	Chimu Inca Shell Necklace w/ Silver Tweezers	Chimu Inca Shell Necklace - Animal Pendant
Jalisco Redware Bowl	Moche Bronze Tupu - Kissing Birds	Carnelian, Crystal and Green Stone Necklace	Chavin Fish Stirrup, Anthropomorphic Face	Jalisco Blackware House Miniatures	Peruvian Spondylus Shell Necklace
Choker Necklace, Original Pre-Columbian Art	Inca Copper Tumi - Man, Monkey	Olmec Blackware Swan Bowl - Exceptional!	Peruvian Crystal & Black Agate Necklace	Moche Culture Spondylus Shell Necklace	Moche Spondylus Shell Bead Necklace
Small Pre-Columbian Coca Bag	Ancient Peruvian Textile Sash - Long!	Peruvian Coca Bag / Chuspa	Chancay Textile Bag from Peru	Bridge-Spouted Vessel, Casma Valley	Moche Fineline Bottle - Warrior
Mezcala Ax God Figure	Paracas Face Vessel	Moche Pottery Stirrup Vessel - Sea Creatures	Whistling Colima Dancers, ex-Butterfield's	Huari / Wari Canteen - Woman, Snakes	Xiochopola Incised Stone Bowl
Mezcala Guerrero Slab Figure

Pre-Columbian civilizations living across Peru, Mexico and Central America flourished prior to the arrival of Europeans, including Christopher Columbus, in the New World. Gods, humans and nature were woven into an intricate tapestry of beliefs and expressions by the societies of Peru and Mesoamerica (Pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America). Religion played a central organizing role in structuring people's lives. Great civilizations developed, such as the Maya in Mesoamerica and the Moche in Peru, where divine kings believed to be descended from gods ruled over vast cities and constructed monuments rivaling those of ancient Greece or Egypt. Pre-Columbian societies were connected through cosmologies in which creation and existence were explained through complex mythologies. Those mythologies told of the creation of humans and nature, and through their ideologies provided ways for humans to properly worship and sustain the universe.