Household and Ritual in the Eastern Olmec Heartland
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
The Olmec (1200-400) are one of the best-known early complex societies in Mesoamerica, yet scholars know very little about the organization of their social, economic, ritual, and political systems. This can be attributed to the fact that most fieldwork has been conducted in elite areas of large centers, and we lack household scale data from smaller sites. Recent investigations at the Middle Formative sites of Los Soldados and Arroyo Pesquero help resolve this bias by collecting household and ritual data at a medium sized site and a special purpose site in the La Venta region. The papers in this session utilize data from subsurface testing (GPR and augering) and excavations to reveal information on economic, ritual, and political organization of Middle Formative Olmec in the Eastern Heartland.
Other Keywords
Olmec •
Formative •
Los Soldados •
Maize •
Obsidian •
Ground-Penetrating Radar •
domestic •
Jade •
Petrography •
Household
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-8 of 8)
- Documents (8)
- A ear of corn of jade from Arroyo Pesquero, sacred offering (2015)
- Las figurillas cerámicas de Los Soldados, Veracruz: Una evidencia de la relación cultural y de identidad de una comunidad Olmeca. (2015)
- The Middle to Late Formative Olmec Chipped-Stone Assemblage from Los Soldados, Veracruz, Mexico (2015)
- Observations Concerning Ash-Tempered Pottery from the Archaeological Site of Los Soldados (2015)
- Olmec Archaeology in the Arroyo Pesquero Region (2015)
- An Olmec Cylinder Seal from Los Soldados (2015)
- Patterns of Plant Use at Los Soldados and Beyond (2015)
- Subsurface Spatial Signatures of the Quotidian from the Olmec Heartland: Insights from Ground-penetrating Radar Surveys of the Los Soldados site, Veracruz. (2015)