Early Olmec and Mesoamerica - The Material Record

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey P. Blomster is Associate Professor at George Washington University, Washington DC. David Cheetham is a research associate at the New World Archaeological Foundation, Brigham Young University, Utah. Klappentext Breaking new ground in Olmec studies, this book reveals the complexity and diversity of 'America's first civilization'. Zusammenfassung This book offers a critical synthesis of the material culture of the Olmec and their contemporaries. It highlights new discoveries and analyses that show the complexity and diversity of what has been called 'America's first civilization'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Materializing the San Lorenzo Olmecs David Cheetham and Jeffrey P. Blomster; 2. Defining Early Olmec style pottery: techniques, forms, and motifs at San Lorenzo Jeffrey P. Blomster, David Cheetham, Rosemary A. Joyce and Christopher A. Pool; 3. An Early Horizon manifestation in the San Lorenzo countryside Carl J. Wendt; 4. An Early Olmec manifestation in Western Olman: the Arroyo phase at Tres Zapotes Christopher A. Pool, Ponciano Ortiz Ceballos, María del Carmen Rodríguez, Erin L. Sears, Ronald L. Bishop and M. James Blackman; 5. Early Horizon materials in the Greater Basin of Mexico and Guerrero Louise I. Paradis; 6. Materializing the Early Olmec style in the Nochixtlán Valley, Oaxaca Jeffrey P. Blomster; 7. Early Olmec style ceramics from the Southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec Marcus Winter, Víctor Manuel Zapien López and Alma Zaraí Montiel Ángeles; 8. Ceramic vessel form similarities between San Lorenzo, Veracruz, and Canton Corralito, Chiapas David Cheetham and Michael D. Coe; 9. 'Olmec' pottery in Honduras Rosemary A. Joyce and John S. Henderson; 10. Figuring out the Early Olmec era Barbara L. Stark.

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• Authors: Jeffrey P. Blomster, Jeffrey P. (George Washington University Blomster, Jeffrey P. Cheetham Blomster
• Assisted by: Jeffrey P Blomster (Editor), Jeffrey P. Blomster (Editor), Jeffrey P. (George Washington University Blomster (Editor), Blomster Jeffrey P. (Editor), David Cheetham (Editor), David (Brigham Young University Cheetham (Editor), Cheetham David (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107107670
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10767-0
• No. of pages: 356
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Material Culture, Archaeology by period / region, The Americas, Central America, Mexico and Central America, Pre-Columbian America