Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...
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including mechanical dolls and tin toys, from across Japan and Europe. It closed temporarily last October for renovations and reopened as Hotel Algo in late April. Four guest rooms are located on ...
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The figurines were discovered in a largely unexcavated site in El Salvador. Some 2,400 years ago, they were controlled by strings that passed through their necks Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent ...
“[These characteristic] inevitably provokes an analogy with modern toy dolls.” Radiocarbon dating indicates the figurines were buried around 400 B.C.E., a period known as the Middle Preclassic ...
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Three of the figurines have articulated heads, causing them to resemble modern toy dolls. The authors suggest they were a kind of ancient puppet, positioned into a scene, or "tableau," undoubtedly ...
The larger figurines have movable heads and open mouths, like modern toy dolls, and may have been used in a theatrical scene or tableau to convey messages or stories from "readily decodable events ...
These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the rest of Central American culture than previously thought.