State of Conservation of the La Venta Stone Sculpture Corpus

Author(s): Rebecca B. Gonzalez Lauck

Year: 2018

Summary

The stone sculpture corpus originally found in La Venta is one of the most important collections of Olmec art in Mexico. It is currently exhibited in five different museums in Tabasco and Mexico City. The state of conservation of the almost 50 sculptures (whole and fragments) at the Parque Museo La Venta in Villahermosa are of particular interest because they have been exhibited in an open air museum for the last six decades. A summary of a recent and detailed study of the state of conservation of this corpus will be presented, as well as recommendations for its better presentation and conservation.

Cite this Record

State of Conservation of the La Venta Stone Sculpture Corpus. Rebecca B. Gonzalez Lauck. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443434)

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Keywords

General
Conservation and Curation • Museums, Collections, and Repatriation • Olmec

Geographic Keywords
Mesoamerica: Gulf Coast

Spatial Coverage

min long: -98.987; min lat: 17.77 ; max long: -86.858; max lat: 25.839 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 21874