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Title

Olmec art and archaeology in Mesoamerica / edited by John E. Clark and Mary E. Pye.

Publication

Washington : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Clark, John E.
• Pye, Mary E.

Description

342 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (1 color); 28 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; 58. Symposium papers ; 35

Uniform Title

• Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 58.
• Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 35.

Subject

• Olmec art > Congresses
• Olmecs > Antiquities > Congresses

Note

• "Proceedings of the symposium "Olmec art and archaeology in Mesoamerica: social complexity in the formative period," sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Cotsen Management Corporation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The symposium was held 19-21 September 1996 in Washington"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Preface / Henry A. Millon -- Introducing Olmec Archaeology / Mary E. Pye and John E. Clark -- Olmec Archaeology after Regional Perspectives: An Assessment of Recent Research / Richard A. Diehl -- I. Archaeology in the Heartland. Framing the Gulf Olmecs / Barbara L. Stark. The Ancient Landscape at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, Veracruz, Mexico: Settlement and Nature / Stacey Symonds. The Sacred Hill of El Manati: A Preliminary Discussion of the Site's Ritual Paraphernalia / Ponciano Ortiz and Maria Del Carmen Rodriguez. The Monuments of Laguna de los Corros and Its Hinterland / Susan D. Gillespie. Sociopolitical Complexity and the Gulf Olmecs: A View from the Tuxtla Mountains, Veracruz, Mexico / Philip J. Arnold III. From Olmec to Epi-Olmec at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico / Christopher A. Pool. A Massive Offering of Axes at La Merced, Hidalgotitlan, Veracruz, Mexico / Maria Del Carmen Rodriguez and Ponciano Ortiz -- II. Archaeology in the Hinterland.
• Ranked Societies, Iconographic Complexity, and Economic Wealth in the Basin of Mexico toward 1200 B.C. / Christine Niederberger. Animal Imagery, Cultural Unities, and Ideologies of Inequality in Early Formative Mesoamerica / Richard G. Lesure. The Pacific Coast and the Olmec Question / John E. Clark and Mary E. Pye -- III. Topics in Olmec Art. Olmec Sculpture: The First Mesoamerican Art / Beatriz De La Fuente. The Portrait and the Mask: Invention and Translation / Esther Pasztory. Faces of the Earth at Chalcatzingo, Mexico: Serpents, Caves, and Mountains in Middle Formative Period Iconography / David C. Grove. Lightning Celts and Corn Fetishes: The Formative Olmec and the Development of Maize Symbolism in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest / Karl Taube.

ISBN

0300085222

OCLC

• 44671664
• ocm44671664
• SCSB-9253172

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries