Mesoamerican stone sculptures

16th century Mexica sculpture

thumb|upright=1.4|Maya chacmool from Chichen Itza, excavated by Le Plongeon in 1875, now displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool or Chac Mool) is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach. These figures possibly symbolised slain warriors carrying offerings to the gods; the bowl upon the chest was used to hold sacrificial offerings, including pulque, tamales, tortillas, tobacc

stone representations of human heads from the Olmec civilization

monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization

A cuauhxicalli or quauhxicalli (, meaning "eagle gourd bowl") was an altar-like stone vessel used by the Aztec in sacrificial ceremonies, believed to be for holding human hearts. A cuauhxicalli would often be decorated with animal motifs, commonly eagles or jaguars. Another kind of cuauhxicalli is the Chacmool-type, which is shaped as a reclining person holding a bowl on his belly.

2.52 metre (8.3 ft) tall andesite statue by an unidentified Mexica artist

Aztec artifact with a disputed original use

Pre-Hispanic sculpture in Mexico

pre-Columbian Stone Monolith

Maya stone sculpture found at Copán in present-day Honduras

carved Aztec disc monolith depicting goddess Coyolxāuhqui dismembered

collection of four statues in Mesoamerica