Olmec art (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Pohl. Christopher von Nagy. Joseph Gamble. Gabriel Lima Estudillo. Eliseo Padilla Gutiérrez.

Cave murals, painted in Olmec style with iconographic links to the major Gulf coast center of La Venta, appear to communicate the dynamism of interregional relationships in an era of rising urbanism. The paintings seem to evoke the evolution of hierarchical positioning among political and religious actors. They might reveal the tools for local and long-distance power building. Yet the work that has clarified the nature of Oxtotitlán Cave and its associated site of Quiotepec has extended the...