Moche artist(s); North Coast, Peru

Stirrup-spout bottle with toad, 200-500 CE

Ceramic, slip

Central Region artist(s); Costa Rica

Frog pendant, 300-800 CE

Jadeite

Classic Veracruz artist(s); Mexico

Frog yoke, 600-900 CE

Greenstone, pigment (probably hematite)

Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s); North Coast, Peru

Beakers with faces and frogs, 900-1100 CE

Gold

Mexica or Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s); Mexico

Necklace with frog-shaped beads, 1400-1521 CE

Mezcala Stone Idol, 300 BCE - 300 CE

Stone, 43.2 x 11.4 cm (17 x 4 1/2 in)

Courtesy: Barakat Gallery

Mezcala stone carvings are a distinct style of pre-Columbian art from Guerrero, Mexico, known for their abstract and minimalist representations of human and animal forms.

These sculptures, crafted from hardstones like greenstone and jade, feature simplified features and geometric shapes, often resembling axe heads.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64735012/chapters/166329964

Guess what! New cover just dropped! I worked crazy hard on this and learned a ton through the process.

Like look at the difference between this and the first cover! WILD!!!

For once Shambala sleeps in later then Ben, and as she makes her way toward her strangely coffee-fragrance-free kitchen she wonders if he got called into work suddenly.

Then she hears the familiar sound of pacing bare feet. She spies him in the living room near her bookshelves, bumbling aimlessly, lost in thought. She leans against the doorframe to watch him.

Glasses: crooked and hanging on for dear life. Hands: easily cradling two books, reading back and forth between them. Beige cardigan: the ribbed one, with the rolled collar and elbow patches.

Dear lord, she’s dating a 65-year-old Classics professor.

Olmec greenstone miniature mask (c. 900–400 BC)

Can y'all believe I started shipping them because they had matching throw poses.