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Archaeology: What's Hot Now: Guide to the Olmec Civilization

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Guide to the Olmec Civilization
Sep 1st 2011, 10:00

Olmec Sites

La Venta, Tres Zapotes, San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, Tenango del Valle, San Lorenzo, Laguna de los Cerros, Puerto Escondido, San Andres, Tlatilco, El Manati, Juxtlahuaca Cave, Oxtotitlán Cave, Takalik Abaj, Pijijiapan, Tenochtitlan, Potrero Nuevo, Loma del Zapote, El Remolino and Paso los Ortices, El Manatí, Teopantecuanitlán, Río Pesquero, Takalik Abaj

Olmec Civilization Issues

  • The Olmec Civilization is at the center of the mother-sister controversy, which is a debate concerning the relative strength of the Olmec society compared to other early Mesoamerican cultures.
  • The Cascajal Block, a large block found in a quarry that may be among the earliest written records in central America, and
  • The search for bitumen sources, which was an important resource to many archaeological societies in central America.
  • Olmec bloodletting spoons have a new explanation these days
  • Was chocolate first used and domesticated by the Olmec?

Sources

Blomster, Jeffrey P., Hector Neff, and Michael D. Glascock 2005 Olmec Pottery Production and Export in Ancient Mexico Determined Through Elemental Analysis. Science 307:1068-1072.

Cyphers, Ann 1999 From Stone to Symbols: Olmec Art in Social Context at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán. Pp. 155-181 in Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica. David C. Grove and Rosemary A. Joyce, eds. Dunbarton Oaks: Washington DC

Diehl, Richard A. 2005 Patterns of Cultural Primacy. Science 307:1055-1056.

Flannery, Kent V., et al. 2005 Implications of new petrographic analysis for the Olmec ‘‘mother culture’’ model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(32):11219-11223.

Flannery, Kent V. and Joyce Marcus 2000 Formative Mexican Chiefdoms and the Myth of the "Mother Culture". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19(1):1-37.

Follensbee, Billie J. A. 2008 Fiber technology and weaving in formative-period Gulf Coast cultures. Ancient Mesoamerica 1987â€"110.

Henderson, John S., et al. 2007 Chemical and archaeological evidence for the earliest cacao beverages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Early Edition)

Joyce, Rosemary A. and John S. Henderson 2007 From Feasting to Cuisine: Implications of Archaeological Research in an Early Honduran Village. American Anthropologist 109(4):642â€"653.

Kaufman, Terrence and John Justeson 2007 Writing the history of the word for cacao in ancient Mesoamerica. Ancient Mesoamerica 18:193-237.

Pohl, Mary D. and Christopher von Nagy 2008 The Olmec and their contemporaries. Pp. 217-230 in Encyclopedia of Archaeology, D.M. Pearsall, editor. Elsevier: London.

Rodríguez Martínez, Ma. d. C., et al. 2006 Oldest Writing in the New World. Science 313:1610-1614.

Sharer, Robert J., et al. 2006 On The Logic Of Archaeological Inference: Early Formative Pottery And The Evolution Of Mesoamerican Societies. Latin American Antiquity 17(1):90-103.

Wendt, Carl J. and Ann Cyphers 2008 How the Olmec used bitumen in ancient Mesoamerica. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27(2):175-191.

Wendt, Carl J. and Shan-Tan Lu 2006 Sourcing archaeological bitumen in the Olmec region. Journal of Archaeological Science 33(1):89-97.

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