Tlatilco

I. Culture located in Valley of Mexico flourished 1,200 B.C. (Formative Period).

A. Ceramic effigy figures with groove and punctation eyes (coffee bean)

                 1. Applique features, hairdo, clothing, jewelry.

                 2. Minimally painted.

                 3. Swollen hips and legs, hands de-emphasized unless

                               holding object.

                 4. Dualism first appears in Male/Female deities.

B. Pots which show influence of Olmeca.

                1. Were-jaguar influence in imagery.

        a. Hollow ware

                        b. Upward flaring upper lip.

        c. Hand-claw and wing-claw motifs.

        d. Parallel incised lines made post-firing.

               2. Stirrup spouted vessels.