Resumen

AMAROLI B., Paúl E.  y  OLSEN BRUHNS, Karen. 450 Years Too Soon: Mixteca-Puebla Style Polychrome Ceramics in El Salvador. An. Inst. Investig. Estét [online]. 2013, vol.35, n.103, pp.231-249. ISSN 0185-1276.

The Early Postclassic in El Salvador is characterized by the Cihuatán Phase, a local version of the international elite culture of the Postclassic in Mesoamerica. Elements of this elite culture adopted by the Salvadorans include urbanism and international, Mexicanized, styles of architecture and planning of ritual and elite centers, as well as by marked changes in decorated ceramics. Among the new decorated wares is Banderas Polychrome, a local version of the broad ceramic tradition known as Mixteca-Puebla Polychromes. The only excavated sample to date is from Cihuatán itself and is mainly in the Codex Substyle, a style which features motifs of central and southern Mexican origin in a style closely related to codex paintings. These motifs are, in the main, bellicose. The single most common is the chimalli, or shield, usually bundled with darts and atlatls, followed by skulls, bones, dismembered body parts, maguey spines, and other artifacts associated with war and sacrifice.

Palabras llave : Polychrome Ceramics.