La Blanca is a Pre Columbian and large site of predominately Middle Preclassic (1300-600 BC) date, located on the western Pacific coast of Guatemala, and being the most important polity on the Pacific coast of Mesoamerica until 600 BC when the dominance pass to the Ujuxte, 13 Km north. The site had the highgest Pyramid in the Pacifc Lowlands at 26 mt. high A pyramid is any three-dimensional structure where the upper surfaces are triangular and converge on one point. ...

Monument 3 was discovered in La Blanca Mound 9, in a residential zone thought to be largely or completely elite. Excavations of the mound initially revealed domestic, features such as floors, burials. Monument 3, however, is unique in Mesoamerican archaeology. It is an sculpture, found on the western slope of the mound. The sculpture is in the shape a qua-trefoil and formed of rammed earth, composed of a sandy loam. The rammed earth was then coated with dark brown (nearly black) clay. The inner rim of the sculpture was painted with hematite red. Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus. ... Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... why hello hello Sculptor redirects here. ... Hematite (AE) or haematite (BE) is the mineral form of Iron(III) oxide, (Fe2O3), one of several iron oxides. ...

The La Blanca qua-trefoil has a channel within the rim that may have carried water to the interior basin. Our initial hypothesis is that the sculpture functioned as a locus of ritual in which water, or notions of fertility, were invoked. Such an idea is consistent with the qua-trefoil shape, which in the Classic period iconography symbolizes a watery portal to the supernatural realm. Dating to approximately 850 B.C., the La Blanca sculpture appears to be the earliest example of a quatrefoil known in Mesoamerica.[1]] Iconography usually refers to the design or creation of images and more specifically to the historical study of art which aims at the identification, description and the interpretation of the content of images. ... why hello hello Sculptor redirects here. ... The cultural areas of Mesoamerica The term Mesoamérica is used to refer to a geographical region that extends roughly from the Tropic of Cancer in central Mexico down through Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua to northwestern Costa Rica, and which is characterized by the particular cultural homogeneity...

References

• [2] FAMSI: Fundación para el avance de los estudios Mesoamericanos Inc.
• [3] Marion Popenoe de Hatch.
• Coe, Michael D. 1961 La Victoria: An Early Formative site on the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Vol. 53, Peabody Museum, Cambridge