The Olmec World

Author : Ignacio Bernal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520028913
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olmec World written by Ignacio Bernal and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Olmec art, society, and religious beliefs. Traces the efflorescence and decline of the Olmecs, but insists on the basic unity of all Mesoamerican civilization.

Author : Michael Coe
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810963115
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olmec World written by Michael Coe and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1996-03-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1400 and 400 BC, in what is now Mexico and Central America, the Olmec people created a magnificent culture, one too often overshadowed by those of the Maya and the Aztec. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of over 250 Olmec works of art - ceramic, jade and stone - on display at the Art Museum, Princeton University in December 1995, and travelling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Author : Amber M. VanDerwarker
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773781
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farming, Hunting, and Fishing in the Olmec World written by Amber M. VanDerwarker and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olmec who anciently inhabited Mexico's southern Gulf Coast organized their once-egalitarian society into chiefdoms during the Formative period (1400 BC to AD 300). This increase in political complexity coincided with the development of village agriculture, which has led scholars to theorize that agricultural surpluses gave aspiring Olmec leaders control over vital resources and thus a power base on which to build authority and exact tribute. In this book, Amber VanDerwarker conducts the first multidisciplinary analysis of subsistence patterns at two Olmec settlements to offer a fuller understanding of how the development of political complexity was tied to both agricultural practices and environmental factors. She uses plant and animal remains, as well as isotopic data, to trace the intensification of maize agriculture during the Late Formative period. She also examines how volcanic eruptions in the region affected subsistence practices and settlement patterns. Through these multiple sets of data, VanDerwarker presents convincing evidence that Olmec and epi-Olmec lifeways of farming, hunting, and fishing were driven by both political and environmental pressures and that the rise of institutionalized leadership must be understood within the ecological context in which it occurred.

Author : Michael D. Coe
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 9780943012193
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olmec World written by Michael D. Coe and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ignacio Bernal
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520331850
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olmec World written by Ignacio Bernal and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Pool
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521783127
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica written by Christopher Pool and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica offers the most thorough and up-to-date book-length treatment of Olmec society and culture available.

Author : Michael D. Coe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico written by Michael D. Coe and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterly....The complexities of Mexico's ancient cultures are perceptively presented and interpreted.--Library Journal

Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen Olmec specialists discuss not only the works of art but also the many recent finds, that provide insights into Mexico's most ancient culture, as well as its cultural history, cosmology, and daily life. Colour photos. Quarto.

Author : David C. Grove
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292768303
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Olmecs written by David C. Grove and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “eminently readable account” of this ancient Mesoamerican civilization—and the experiences of the archaeologists who have unearthed its history (Choice). The Olmecs are renowned for their massive carved stone heads and other sculptures, the first stone monuments produced in Mesoamerica. Seven decades of archaeological research have given us many insights into the lifeways of the Olmecs, who inhabited parts of the modern Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco from around 1150 to 400 BC, and there are several good books that summarize the current interpretations of Olmec prehistory. But these formal studies don’t describe the field experiences of the archaeologists who made the discoveries. What was it like to endure the Olmec region’s heat, humidity, mosquitoes, and ticks to bring that ancient society to light? How did unforeseen events and luck alter carefully planned research programs and the conclusions drawn from them? And, importantly, how did local communities and individuals react to the research projects and discoveries in their territories? In this engaging book, a leading expert on the Olmecs tells those stories from his own experiences and those of his predecessors, colleagues, and students. Beginning with the first modern explorations in the 1920s, David Grove recounts how generations of archaeologists and local residents have uncovered the Olmec past and pieced together a portrait of this ancient civilization that left no written records. The stories are full of fortuitous discoveries and frustrating disappointments, helpful collaborations and deceitful shenanigans. What emerges is an unconventional history of Olmec archaeology, a lively introduction to archaeological fieldwork, and an exceptional overview of all that we currently know about the Olmecs.

Author : Richard A. Diehl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500021194
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olmecs written by Richard A. Diehl and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a complete overview of Olmec culture, its accomplishments and impact on later Mexcian civilizations.