Two-Headed Female Figurine (Two views)

This hollow piece stands unaided on short, bulbous legs and flat feet. The shoulders are thrown back and the chest, with slightly raised breasts, is puffed out. The short arms are held at the sides, with wrists bent back and hands projecting outward...

About 2500 years ago the fertile adjoining valleys of Mexico, Puebla, Cuernavaca, and Toluca were already a metropolitan nucleus for the entire northern continent. Other regions in Oaxaca, on the southern Gulf Coast, and in Maya territory were in touch with central Mexico, giving and receiving each in its time. The dominant centre of ancient urban life eventually became the three high intermontane plateau valleys of central southern Mexico, in the quadrant bounded by Tula, Xochicalco, Cholula, …