Sentences with phrase «obsidian blades»

Several households made obsidian blades, and a few excavations uncovered evidence of the production of lip plugs, earplugs and other obsidian jewelry.

We recovered thousands of broken obsidian blades, whose closest geological source was 100 kilometers away.

Inside the Footprint Cave, our guide points out Maya pots that once held offerings of corn and chili peppers and lets us hold obsidian blades used for bloodletting ceremonies.

Several obsidian blades were found inside a small building much like Structure 4 at San Juan, which may have also been a storage building.

While we have not excavated at these sites, surface collections yielded sherds of high quality, imported pottery and artifacts such as basalt grinding stones and obsidian blades from remote areas.

A priest in feathered regalia kept an obsidian blade in a sheath on his hip.

Obsidian blades, which had extremely sharp cutting edges, served in many household and craft activities.

A variety of gifts were interred with the dead: pottery, bone and stone beads and pendants, stone axes made of metamorphic rocks, flint and obsidian blades, shell pendants, and shell and bead necklaces.

The Necroswords were the obsidian blades that Hela used during her takeover of Asgard.

The site has been heavily looted and has yielded grinding tools, pottery, obsidian blades and jade.

However, Los Renegados yielded a collection of nearly 200 obsidian blades, all from sources in the Guatemalan highlands.

Other artifacts include the obsidian blades that are believed to have been used in the solemn but gruesome human sacrifices conducted by Maya priests.

Discovered underneath one of the central buildings at the site, the tomb contains the undisturbed remains of an adult male estimated to be in his 20s or 30s buried alongside a number of ceremonial items, including four obsidian blades, vases, pots, and the remains of what archeologists believe is either a jaguar or a deer.

Archaeologists believe the Maya used this area as a ritual blood - letting site because of the broken pottery, obsidian blades and another carved piece of slate scattered throughout this ceremonial area.

Included in the find were shell & bone ornaments, pottery vessels, obsidian blades, and jade objects, the most impressive being a jade & shell mosaic mask.

Two small carved stelae are located above the stream, one in the shape of an obsidian blade and the other a stingray spine.