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detribalizedaztec:

From my sketch book, with love.
The Lady of Copán.Sketch10 x 7”04/11/12I recently read an article about new discoveries made by Shankari Patel, an anthropology graduate student at the University of California-Riverside, which states that Mayan women were in fact powerful leaders within the society. No glass ceilings existed for the Women of pre-columbian Mexico, how powerful is that? In Mesoamerica there were both female doctors and female authority figures. 

detribalizedaztec:

From my sketch book, with love.

The Lady of Copán.
Sketch
10 x 7”
04/11/12

I recently read an article about new discoveries made by Shankari Patel, an anthropology graduate student at the University of California-Riverside, which states that Mayan women were in fact powerful leaders within the society. No glass ceilings existed for the Women of pre-columbian Mexico, how powerful is that? In Mesoamerica there were both female doctors and female authority figures. 

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