Download or read book A Stylistic and Chronological Study of Olmec Monumental Sculpture written by C. William Clewlow and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Stylistic and Chronological Study of Olmec Monumental Sculpture written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Stylistic and Chronological Study of Olmec Monumental Sculpture written by Carl William Clewlow (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Stylistic and Chronological Study of Olmec Monumental Sculpture written by Carl William Clewlow and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Study of Olmec Sculptural Chronology written by Susan Milbrath and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1979 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Olmec an Early Art Style of Precolumbian Mexico written by Charles R. Wicke and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discovering the Olmecs written by David C. Grove and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “eminently readable account” of this ancient Mesoamerican civilization—and the experiences of the archaeologists who have unearthed its history (Choice). 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 lifeways of the Olmecs, who inhabited parts of the modern Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco from around 1150 to 400 BC, and there are several good books that summarize the current interpretations of Olmec prehistory. But these formal studies don’t describe the field experiences of the archaeologists who made the discoveries. What was it like to endure the Olmec region’s heat, humidity, mosquitoes, and ticks to bring that ancient society to light? How did unforeseen events and luck alter carefully planned research programs and the conclusions drawn from them? And, importantly, how did local communities and individuals react to the research projects and discoveries in their territories? In this engaging book, a leading expert on the Olmecs tells those stories from his own experiences and those of his predecessors, colleagues, and students. Beginning with the first modern explorations in the 1920s, David Grove recounts how generations of archaeologists and local residents have uncovered the Olmec past and pieced together a portrait of this ancient civilization that left no written records. The stories are full of fortuitous discoveries and frustrating disappointments, helpful collaborations and deceitful shenanigans. What emerges is an unconventional history of Olmec archaeology, a lively introduction to archaeological fieldwork, and an exceptional overview of all that we currently know about the Olmecs.

Download or read book Regional Perspectives on the Olmec written by Robert J. Sharer and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989-11-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Seriation of Olmec Monumental Sculpture from Mesoamerica written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Olmec Their Neighbors written by Matthew Williams Stirling and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1981 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Download or read book A Seriation of Olmec Monumental Sculpture from Mesoamerica written by Susan Milbrath Pelliza and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Olmec Monuments as Agents of Social Memory written by Jillian Louise Mollenhauer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dissertation contributes to a growing body of literature which considers the problems of redacted histories, re-formed memories, and competing identities in relation to the Olmec societies of Mexico's Gulf lowlands. In this study Olmec monuments are positioned as agentive entities which served to generate and transform the collective memory of Pre-classic populations. Additionally, larger patterns in the praxis of memory, both individual and corporate, are discerned through the contextual analysis of individual monuments in order to trace the social and spatial milieus of Olmec monumental sculpture. The archeological contexts of particular monuments, including architectural settings and the associated depositional matrix, demonstrate the heterogeneity of monument display and corresponding ritual practices at different chronological and regional scales. Megalithic sculptures were integrated into Pre-classic monumental spaces and civic landscapes, which served to continually manifest the mytho-historical past in the present. As sites of memory within the urban topography, monuments functioned to naturalize the past and ground it within the spaces of civic and religious ceremony. Practices of re-carving, erasure, re-setting, and destruction may be read as points of disjunction or rupture in the collective memory of a site in response to shifting social and political needs. Outside of primary centers, hinterland monuments integrated satellite communities into larger spheres of social interaction through the generation of a shared collective mnemonic which connected rural and urban populations. However, the past was also a mechanism for the constitution and contestation of socio-political authority. The appropriation, mutilation, and destruction of monuments could serve to challenge the status quo and could be used by hinterland populations to negotiate or reform their relationships to larger centers of power. Overall, this study aims to re-position the monuments of the Gulf lowland Olmec as social agents which were used and re-used by distinct corporate entities to manipulate present populations through their collective memories of the past."--Abstract.

Download or read book The Place of Stone Monuments written by Julia Guernsey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book University Bulletin written by University of California (System) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Recent Studies in Pre Columbian Archaeology written by Nicholas J. Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of Mesoamerican Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ancient Maya written by Robert J. Sharer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Archaic and Early Preclassic developments -- Patterns in the evolution of Mesoamerican civilization -- 5. The emergence of Maya civilization in the Middle Preclassic -- The emergence of complex societies -- Markers of complex societies -- The Pacific plain in the Middle Preclassic -- Middle Preclassic commodities and monuments -- The highlands in the Middle Preclassic -- The lowlands in the Middle Preclassic -- Middle Preclassic communities -- The rise of complex society in the lowlands -- Further Middle Preclassic developments in the lowlands -- Summary : the Middle Preclassic precursors of Maya civilization -- 6. The origins of Maya states in the Late Preclassic -- Late Preclassic Maya civilization and writing traditions-- The Late Preclassic Isthmian tradition -- The Late Preclassic Southern Maya -- Highland-lowland interaction in the Preclassic -- The Maya lowlands in the Late Preclassic -- Patterns of Late Preclassic rulership -- Preclassic developments in the Northern lowlands -- Late Preclassic lowland Maya civilization -- Decline in the terminal Preclassic -- Summary : reconstructing the Maya Preclassic -- 7. The expansion of Maya states in the Early Classic -- The Early Classic and the origins of Maya civilization -- The Southern Maya area in the Classic Period -- The Classic transition in the lowlands -- The expansion of states in the Maya lowlands -- Competition and warfare in the Classic lowlands -- The Early Classic in the Maya lowlands -- The rise of Tikal in the Early Classic (ca. 100-378) -- Neighboring centers in the central lowlands (ca. 328-416).