... them well both in the past and the present. Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica. Edited by John E. Clark and Mary E. Pye. (Washington, dc: National Gallery of Art, 2000. 344 pp., figures, tables, bibliographies. $50.00...

... Book Reviews 733 in responding to challenges brought by non-Indians, a common hunter- gatherer strategy that has served them well both in the past and the present. Olmec Art...

... the present-day vantage. Kowalski has organized the book both regionally and chronologi- cally. The first section focuses on western Mesoamerica, beginning with the Olmec, then proceeding to Teuchitlán, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Veracruz, Toltec, and Aztec architecture. The second section shifts...

... (67), although Augustinian and Thomist triads of divine, angelic, and human may have been in play as well. The Historia treated the Olmec, Xicanlanca, Toltec, Chichimeca, Tepanec, Mexican, and Teochichimeca peoples as New Spain’s “principal Indian nations,” while other groups, such as the peoples...

..., Laura Wingfield shows us how the national symbol in Costa Rica went through a sex change, Billie Follensbee discusses the fluidity of gender variation in Olmec costume, while Kim Richter explores gender codes for Haustec men and women depicted wearing headdresses. Some forms of dress were meant...

... in the future, this volume will show the outlines of what can be understood from the present-day vantage. Kowalski has organized the book both regionally and chronologi- cally. The first section focuses on western Mesoamerica, beginning with the Olmec, then proceeding to Teuchitlán, Zapotec, Teotihuacan...

.... Olmec Art and Archaeology and the Greater Mesoamerica: Archaeology of West and Northwest Mexico would both be useful for any serious Meso- american archaeologist. By and large, the quality of the contributions meet the criteria...

..., Susan D. 1999 Olmec Thrones as Ancestral Altars: The Two Sides of Power. In Material Symbols: Culture and Economy in Prehistory . J. E. Robb, ed. Occasional Paper 26. Pp. 224 -53. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, Center for Archaeological Investigations. 2002 Body and Soul among...

..., Ecuador. These examples are later than the dates of both the Telleriano-Remensis and Durán images. See Groesen 2008 ; and Cummins 2013 . 2 Anthropologist Ivan Van Sertima claimed in 1976 that the Olmec heads were images of Nubian overlords who had sailed to the Americas around 700 BC. This claim...

... consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230 Book Reviews cans, and Maya will be surprised at the cultural diversity in Mexico’s past. This book is a good introductory text regarding the prehistory of Mexico and its disparate cultures...

... consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230 Book Reviews cans, and Maya will be surprised at the cultural diversity in Mexico’s past. This book is a good introductory text regarding the prehistory of Mexico and its disparate cultures...

... consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230 Book Reviews cans, and Maya will be surprised at the cultural diversity in Mexico’s past. This book is a good introductory text regarding the prehistory of Mexico and its disparate cultures...

... have succeeded in combining the perspectives of the archaeologist and the historian to provide broad coverage about the cul- tures that once resided in ancient Mexico. Those who think that pre- Hispanic Mexico consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230...

... consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230 Book Reviews cans, and Maya will be surprised at the cultural diversity in Mexico’s past. This book is a good introductory text regarding the prehistory of Mexico and its disparate cultures...

... consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230 Book Reviews cans, and Maya will be surprised at the cultural diversity in Mexico’s past. This book is a good introductory text regarding the prehistory of Mexico and its disparate cultures...

... have succeeded in combining the perspectives of the archaeologist and the historian to provide broad coverage about the cul- tures that once resided in ancient Mexico. Those who think that pre- Hispanic Mexico consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230...

... consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230 Book Reviews cans, and Maya will be surprised at the cultural diversity in Mexico’s past. This book is a good introductory text regarding the prehistory of Mexico and its disparate cultures...

...- tures that once resided in ancient Mexico. Those who think that pre- Hispanic Mexico consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230 Book Reviews cans, and Maya will be surprised at the cultural diversity in Mexico’s past. This book...

... have succeeded in combining the perspectives of the archaeologist and the historian to provide broad coverage about the cul- tures that once resided in ancient Mexico. Those who think that pre- Hispanic Mexico consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230...

... have succeeded in combining the perspectives of the archaeologist and the historian to provide broad coverage about the cul- tures that once resided in ancient Mexico. Those who think that pre- Hispanic Mexico consists only of Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Aztecs, Oaxa- 230...