The Huastecs lived in northern Mexico around the tenth
century A.D. They created very detailed, free-standing stone
carvings, which influenced later Aztec art.
Archaeologists have found several life-death statues in the
Huastec region. Looking at these statues, historians have
made guesses about what the Huastecs believed.
They think the Huastecs believed that power came from duality,
the balance of opposites - like life
and death, male and female, or earth and sky.
