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The Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca Head
The Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca Head
Written By Mister Gu on Monday, February 23, 2015 | 2:43 PM
The Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head is a terracotta head, probably originally part of a larger figurine, discovered in 1933 during the excavation of a burial offering in the Pre-Hispanic settlement of Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca, located nearly forty miles NW of Mexico City. Besides the head, there are other different objects of gold, copper, turquoise, rock crystal, jet, bone, shell and pottery. Because