Chapter 7
Part II
The stone above is one of the most spectacular pre-Olmec pieces that you will ever see. Its design encompasses the Simple, Stacked, Scooped, and Complicated styles. We’ll be covering some of the many images this stone displays shortly. Before that however, I’d like for you to locate the primary face that is being displayed from this perspective. It is facing rightward 👉. If you have been keeping up with the different types of embedded orientation points then you know that this is a “rocker” type stone. How do you know that? Simple, because of the curved bottom of this piece. Another orientation point can be found contained within the Stacked layers themselves. How so? In the last chapter you were shown two rocker stones that bore an interesting design pattern, a half-circle that formed an eye. You were even shown a third piece with the same half-circle pattern.
The example on the left shows the rigid half-circle pattern shown on previous stones. On the right you will find an example of how this pattern appears on the Stacked stone above. If you can find this pattern within the layers BRAVO!, you have located the right eye 👁️. Flushing out the details for the remainder of this face is relatively easy once you have found this orientation point 😉.
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*** An important correction has been made to Part I of this chapter. We apologize for the error 😐.