On the Question of Olmec Architecture and Sculpture Beyond the Gulf Coast
Author(s): Rebecca Gonzalez Lauck
Year: 2016
Summary
For over half a century, the ancient city located in La Venta, Tabasco has served as a standard in defining what is commonly referred to as Olmec in the time period between ca. 1000-400 BC. This paper will examine the architectural and sculptural vestiges in sites that have been defined as Olmec outside the Gulf Coast heartland, in order to define the component(s) that define it as “Olmec”, as well as to explain the differences observed.
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On the Question of Olmec Architecture and Sculpture Beyond the Gulf Coast. Rebecca Gonzalez Lauck. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 402959)
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Keywords
General
Architecture
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Olmec
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Sculpture
Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica
Spatial Coverage
min long: -107.271; min lat: 12.383 ; max long: -86.353; max lat: 23.08 ;