San Lorenzo and the Olmec Civilization
Author | : Michael D. Coe |
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Michael D. Coe |
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Michael D. Coe |
Publisher | : New Word City |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1640190007 |
Here is the story of America's oldest - and oddest - civilization, the Olmecs of the southern Mexican jungles. Virtually unknown to archaeologists until the early twentieth century, their true importance is only now being realized and shedding new light on how the Indian peoples of the Americas came to be here.
Author | : David C. Grove |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292760817 |
The Olmecs are renowned for their massive carved stone heads and other sculptures, the first stone monuments produced in Mesoamerica. Seven decades of archaeological research have given us many insights into the lives of the Olmecs, who inhabited parts of the modern Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco from around 1150 to 400 BC. Beginning with the first modern explorations in the 1920s, the story of how generations of archaeologists and local residents have uncovered the Olmec past and pieced together a portrait of an ancient civilization that left no written records unfolds. From stories of fortuitous discoveries and frustrating disappoints, helpful collaborations and deceitful shenanigans emerges the unconventional history of Olmec archeology.
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Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1967* |
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Author | : Richard A. Diehl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : 9780500021194 |
Provides a complete overview of Olmec culture, its accomplishments and impact on later Mexcian civilizations.
Author | : Matthew Williams Stirling |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780884020981 |
Twenty-one papers on the Olmec were written for this volume in tribute to Matthew W. Stirling, "pioneer archaeologist, ethnologist, and the discoverer of the Olmec civilization."
Author | : Christopher Pool |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2007-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521783127 |
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica offers the most thorough and up-to-date book-length treatment of Olmec society and culture available.
Author | : Kathleen Berrin |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : 9780300166767 |
"This catalogue was published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico"--Colophon.
Author | : Kenneth Hirth |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2020-08-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1646420578 |
Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo examines the specialized craft production, manufacturing, adoption, and spread of obsidian cutting tools at San Lorenzo, Mexico, the first major Olmec center to develop in the southern Gulf Coast region of Mesoamerica. Through the systematic analysis of this single commodity, Kenneth Hirth and Ann Cyphers reconstruct the importation of raw material and the on-site production and distribution of finished goods from a specialized workshop engaged in the manufacture of obsidian blades. The obsidian blade was the cutting tool of choice across Mesoamerica and used in a wide range of activities, from domestic food preparation to institutional ritual activities. Hirth and Cyphers conducted a three-decade investigation of obsidian artifacts recovered at Puerto Malpica, the earliest known workshop, and seventy-six other sites on San Lorenzo Island, where these tools were manufactured for local and regional distribution. Evidence recovered from these excavations provides some of the first information on how early craft specialists operated and how the specialized technology used to manufacture obsidian blades spread across Mesoamerica. The authors use geochemical analyses to identify thirteen different sources for obsidian during San Lorenzo’s occupation. This volcanic glass, not locally available, was transported over great distances, arriving in nodular and finished blade form. Olmec Lithic Economy at San Lorenzo offers a new way to analyze the Preclassic lithic economy—the procurement, production, distribution, and consumption of flaked stone tools—and shows how the study of lithics aids in developing a comprehensive picture of the internal structure and operation of Olmec economy. The book will be significant for Mesoamericanists as well as students and scholars interested in economy, lithic technology, and early complex societies.
Author | : Julia Guernsey |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Indian sculpture |
ISBN | : 9780884023647 |
This volume considers the significance of stone monuments in Preclassic Mesoamerica. By placing sculptures in their cultural, historical, social, political, religious, and cognitive contexts, the seventeen contributors utilize archaeological and art historical methods to understand the origins, growth, and spread of civilization in Middle America.