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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (3): 594–595.
Published: 01 August 1984
...William R. Fowler, Jr. The Olmec and Their Neighbors: Essays in Memory of Matthew W. Stirling . Edited by Benson Elizabeth P. . Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections , 1981 . Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Bibliography . Pp. xii , 346 . Cloth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (2): 311–312.
Published: 01 May 1978
...Michael D. Coe Luckert’s basic thesis is that Olmec archaeology has consistently overemphasized the importance of jaguars in the iconography, while downplaying the role of the serpent. Actually, no other student of the subject has denied the presence of serpent imagery in Olmec religion...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1972) 52 (4): 719.
Published: 01 November 1972
...T.G. Olmec: An Early Art Style of Pre-Columbian Mexico . By Wicke Charles R. . Tucson, Arizona , 1971 . University of Arizona Press . Map. Tables. Illustrations. Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 188 . Cloth. $12.00 . Copyright 1972 by Duke University Press 1972...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 February 1970
...Robert H. Lister The Olmec World . By Bernal Ignacio . Translated by Heyden Doris and Horcasitas Fernando . Berkeley , 1969 . University of California Press . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 273 . $12.50 . Copyright 1970 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (2): 394.
Published: 01 May 1969
... more happy circumstances. Coe traces not only the history of the Olmecs, but also the history of Olmec studies. There are digressions, and much of the book deals with other areas and other peoples. The logic of including a reproduction of the Aztec calendar stone, for example, escaped me, though I...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 667–668.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Mary Miller Discovering the Olmecs: An Unconventional History . By Grove David C. . William & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2014 . Map. Figures. Notes. Index. viii, 197 pp. Cloth , $55.00...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (2): 301–302.
Published: 01 May 1981
... on the monumental sculpture of the Olmec civilization, Mesoamerica’s first high culture, which spanned the period from 1300 to 400 b.c . It should be read in conjuction with the author’s more fully illustrated Catálogo de la escultura olmeca (1973). Here her intent is to establish general traits...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 February 1968
... under consideration merits such approval. The booklet by Mario Palacios is too uncritically derivative, even to its unrelated illustrations reprinted from old National Geographic Society negatives. His ethnohistory of “La Venta” Olmecs was doomed to failure from the start because it was not based...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 February 1971
... of northwest Costa Rica, around the time of Christ. More importantly, she feels that the Olmec themselves in an earlier time came to the Nicoya region to obtain the lovely blue-green and imperial jade for which they are famous. This source had not yet been located, but I have been informed by Mr. Charles Woram...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1967) 47 (1): 91–93.
Published: 01 February 1967
... on Mesoamerica are not so well integrated. Geographical divisions between Mexico and the Maya area and even between the central highlands and the Gulf coast intrude on the organic relationship of their arts. Michael Coe apparently is an unacknowledged major source, especially for the controversial Olmec...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 508–509.
Published: 01 August 1987
... light of Mesoamerica. Seven papers treat various aspects of Mesoamerican archeology, including Olmec jades in the Maya area (Andrews), the Olmec calendar round (Edmonson), an important interpretation of Mars astronomical tables in the Dresden Codex (Bricker and Bricker), Yucatecan sculpture (M...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 141–142.
Published: 01 February 2001
... of this protean figure and related narratives. Discussion ranges from beliefs about the underworld and creation, to stories recorded on Classic Maya ceramics and in the Popol Vuh, to Olmec agricultural imagery, to transformations of political organization and ideology that followed the collapse of Classic...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (1): 171–172.
Published: 01 February 1973
... University Press 1973 This is a catalogue of ceramic pieces exhibited in the Art Museum, Princeton University. Gay contends that the origin of the Olmec culture is in the Xochipala basin, Guerrero where he identifies a formative level Olmec ceramic tradition. He describes the village of Xochipala...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1968) 48 (2): 349–350.
Published: 01 May 1968
... is more at home writing of the Olmec sites in Mexico. In the organization of this book he owes much to the late Sylvanus G. Morley’s classic study, The Ancient Maya . But because of the large amount of research during the past two decades in Middle America, Coe is able to put Mayan culture in its proper...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (2): 273–274.
Published: 01 May 1963
... text, objective content, clear and informative tables, and illustrations of high quality. A peculiarity of its organization is its reverse chronology: it begins with the late Aztec period and proceeds backward in time to the Archaic cultures and the Olmecs. Krickeberg defends this procedure...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1963) 43 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 February 1963
... positively to Maya styles or to the postclassic in general. His concept of “Mixtec” was overdrawn. He exaggerated Olmec culture and Olmec influence, both in the Valley of Mexico and elsewhere. The translator and new publisher have missed an opportunity to correct a number of the factual errors...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 739–740.
Published: 01 November 1969
... works, for example, the Olmec “Wrestler” of stone and the Maya head of stucco from Palenque fit badly into his schema. Are we, then, to believe that on geographical or other grounds these village people developed completely independent of Teotihuacán, Monte Albán, El Tajín, and other such cultural...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (2): 410.
Published: 01 May 1984
... publications applying Marxist theory to New World societies. The following nine chapters discuss the decipherment of Maya writing, experimental reconstruction of Olmec mythology, Maya city-states, the history of ancient civilizations in the Central Andes, cooperative labor in the Inca state, the Mochica...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (1): 168.
Published: 01 February 1978
..., are readily followed with a minimum of effort. The book derives from a 1973 meeting at the University of California, Los Angeles, cosponsored by the Ethnic Arts Council there, aimed at exploring the iconography of the ancient Olmec and tracing their impact, if any, on peoples of later times and other...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1984) 64 (3): 607.
Published: 01 August 1984
... ; Market System Development in the Prehispanic Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, G ary F einman , R ichard B lanton , and S tephen K owalewski ; Exchange in Formative Highland Oaxaca, M arcus C. W inter ; Hallucinogenic Mushrooms, Jade, Obsidian, and the Guatemalan Highlands: What Did the Olmecs Really Want? K...
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