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Journal articles on the topic "Olmec architecture"

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Ramírez-Núñez, Carolina, Ann Cyphers, Jean-François Parrot, and Bernhard Höfle. "MULTIDIRECTIONAL INTERPOLATION OF LIDAR DATA FROM SOUTHERN VERACRUZ, MEXICO: IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLY OLMEC SUBSISTENCE." Ancient Mesoamerica 30, no. 3 (2019): 385–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956536118000263.

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AbstractFrom their beginnings some 4,000 years ago to their decadence around 400 b.c., the Olmec people achieved a high level of sociopolitical complexity and dominated their native geographic territory, the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico. The first Olmec capital of San Lorenzo, Veracruz, was the only site in Mesoamerica that produced imposing monumental stone sculpture and architecture between 1800 and 1000 b.c. These characteristics reflect the capabilities of its centralized political system headed by hereditary rulers with divine legitimation. Key issues regarding the development of San Lor
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Borstein, Joshua A. "EPICLASSIC POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN SOUTHERN VERACRUZ, MEXICO: Segmentary versus centralized integration." Ancient Mesoamerica 16, no. 1 (2005): 11–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s095653610505008x.

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Archaeological investigations in southern Veracruz, Mexico, have traditionally focused on the impressive achievements of the Early Formative Olmec, one of Mesoamerica's earliest complex societies. Fewer studies have investigated post-Olmec cultural developments. Research in parts of the middle San Juan and lower Coatzacoalcos drainages of southern Veracruz provides new data on the Epiclassic period, when population levels exceeded the Olmec period. This paper examines settlement patterns and architectural complexes to interpret the political organization extant during the Epiclassic. Two large
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Wendt, Carl J. "Using Refuse Disposal Patterns to Infer Olmec Site Structure in the San Lorenzo Region, Veracruz, Mexico." Latin American Antiquity 16, no. 4 (2005): 449–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/30042509.

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AbstractIn this paper, I use data gathered from recent excavations conducted in the San Lorenzo region to explore the nature of Olmec site structure. Most studies dealing with this topic have focused on ceremonial precincts at large regional centers. Recent archaeological investigations conducted at the low lying Early Formative period (1500–900 B.C., radiocarbon years) site of El Remolino provide a unique opportunity to study how the Olmec organized domestic space outside primary centers. Although no easily identifiable structural remains were found at El Remolino, refuse disposal patterns ar
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Źrałka, Jarosław, Wiesław Koszkul, Simon Martin, and Bernard Hermes. "In the path of the Maize God: a royal tomb at Nakum, Petén, Guatemala." Antiquity 85, no. 329 (2011): 890–908. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00068381.

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The authors describe the excavation and interpretation of an intact seventh-century high status burial at the Maya site of Nakum. The dead person wore an incised pectoral with an eventful biography, having started out as an Olmec heirloom 1000 years before. No less impressive was the series of votive rituals found to have been enacted at the tomb for another 100 years or more. The beautiful objects, their architectural setting and the long story they recount, offer a heart-breaking indictment of the multiple losses due to looting.
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Stoliarchuk, Nataliia. "Worldview and aesthetic principles of the artistic culture of ancient Mesoamericans." Grani 23, no. 11 (2020): 14–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/172097.

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The article is devoted to the philosophic and culturological analysis of the artistic culture of ancient Mesoamerica that gives the basis for the reconstruction of spiritual and aesthetic messages as well as artistic and figurative significance and in general the unique mythological worldview of ancient Mesoamericans. The priority is given to the special meaning of the Olmec civilization which founded spiritual, aesthetic, artistic and stylistic basics of Mesoamericans’ cultural and spiritual life further evolution. The conception of reincarnation based on the spiritual boundaries with the gen
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Sullivan, Timothy D. "Shifting Strategies of Political Authority in the Middle through Terminal Formative Polity of Chiapa De Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico." Latin American Antiquity 26, no. 4 (2015): 452–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.26.4.452.

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This study investigates changes in strategies ofrulership at the early Zoque polity ofChiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico, from its inception in the Middle Formative period through its peak of political power during the Terminal Formative period. Incorporating data from my survey ofChiapa de Corzo and its hinterland with excavation data from the center, I contrast changes in the organization of ceremonial activity and in the establishment of status differences at the site with strategies employed in the governance of the polity at large. The initial rulers ofChiapa de Corzo adopted civic-ceremoni
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Hammond, Norman. "Maya Matters - Jon C. Lohse & Fred ValdezJr. (ed.). Ancient Maya Commoners. x+300 pages, 55 figures, 7 tables. 2004. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 0-292-70571-9 hardback $45. - James E. Brady & Keith M. Prufer. (ed.). In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Mesoamerican ritual cave use. viii+438 pages, 145 illustrations. 2005. Austin (TX): University of Texas Press; 0-292-70586-7 $60. - John M. Weeks, Jane A. Hill & Charles Golden (ed.). Piedras Negras Archaeology, 1931-1939. Piedras Negras Preliminary Papers & Piedras Negras Archaeology: Architecture. xiii+425 pages, 200 illustrations, 84 tables. 2005. Philadelphia (PA): University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; 1-931707-75-8 $75. - Gabrielle Vail & Anthony Aveni (ed.). The Madrid Codex: new approaches to understanding an Ancient Maya manuscript. xxvi+426 pages, 95 illustrations, 11 colour plates. 2004. Boulder (Colorado): University Press of Colorado; 0-87081-786-8 hardback $55. - Karl A. Taube. Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks (Pre-Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks 2). xviii+228 pages, 88 figures, 39 colour plates. 2004. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; 0-88402-275-7 hardback $65." Antiquity 80, no. 307 (2006): 204–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00093388.

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De, la Vega Hans Martz. "CASE STUDIES WITH ARCHAEOASTRONOMIC APPROACH IN THE STATE OF TABASCO, MEXICO." July 2, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1478680.

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In the year of 2016 started the Research Project Archeology, Archaeoastronomy, Calendar and Landscape Olmec and Maya (PIAACPOM). It focuses on archaeoastronomy, and in this field season, research was steered in the state of Tabasco, Mexico. The work is centred on the methodology of the case studies, which allow to know in greater detail each of the archaeological zones. The places researched in this paper are the Olmec site La Venta and the Zoque like archaeological zone of Malpasito, and also San Claudio and Comalcalco, these representatives of the Mayan culture. All of them have an architect
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Šprajc, Ivan, and Takeshi Inomata. "Astronomy, Architecture, and Landscape in the Olmec Area and Western Maya Lowlands: Implications for Understanding Regional Variability and Evolution of Orientation Patterns in Mesoamerica." Latin American Antiquity, February 15, 2024, 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/laq.2023.63.

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Abstract In the area along the southern Gulf Coast in Mexico, a large number of previously unrecorded archaeological sites have recently been detected with the aid of lidar data, which also allowed us to determine the orientations of hundreds of structures and architectural assemblages, including many standardized complexes dated to the Early-to-Middle Formative transition. As revealed by our analyses, most orientations were based on astronomical and calendrical principles, occasionally combined with certain concepts of sacred geography. While the results of these analyses were presented in a
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Olmec architecture"

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Colman, Arlene. "Construction of Complex A at La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico: A History of Buildings, Burials, Offerings, and Stone Monuments." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2145.

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In 1969, Paul Tolstoy commented that archaeological investigation at La Venta had become "a fairly long and at times tortuous story of excavation, interpretation, re-interpretation, and depredation at the famous site found by Stirling." This thesis adds to the torture by describing and illustrating the architecture, burials, offerings, and stone sculpture of La Venta Complex A in an effort to reconcile data into an accurate sequence of meaningful cultural events. The details derive from excavation reports, field notes, maps, photographs, and correspondence of the early investigators of the si
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Books on the topic "Olmec architecture"

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A, Pool Christopher, ed. Settlement archaeology and political economy at Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, 2003.

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Miller, Mary Ellen. The art of Mesoamerica from Olmec to Aztec. Thames and Hudson, 1986.

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Gay, Carlo T. E. Ancient ritual stone artifacts: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica. Académie royale de Belgique, 1995.

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The art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec. Thames and Hudson, 1986.

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The art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec. Thames and Hudson, 1996.

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The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (World of Art). Thames & Hudson, 2001.

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Chan, Roman Pia, and Roman Piina Chan. El Lenguaje de Las Piedras: Glifica Olmeca y Zapoteca (Seccion de Obras de Antropologia). Fondo de Cultura Economica USA, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "Olmec architecture"

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Cyphers, Ann. "Olmec Architecture at San Lorenzo." In Olmec to Aztec. University of Arizona Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2vt04zr.8.

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"THE OLMEC SITES AND THEIR ARCHITECTURE." In The Olmec World. University of California Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.8501567.6.

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Doxtater, Dennis. "Mesoamerican Pyramidal Shaped Landscapes as Maps in Urban Ceremonial Sites: “Close Mapping” Analysis of Spatial Homologs." In Landscape Architecture and Design - Sustainability and Management [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1006529.

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Probability tests show the likelihood of designed and land-surveyed “landscape pyramids” laid out horizontally over large-scale geographic areas. Linked are two coincidental equinox and solstice alignment patterns among volcanos at Mexico (valley) and Lake Atitlan. Pattern apexes position early Olmec sites of La Venta and San Lorenzo. This frame provides “benchmarks” to locate and orient site features for both Olmec and early Mayan foci of Piedras Negras, Palenque, El Mirador, and Tikal as exemplary. The design of these complex ceremonial sites is yet to be understood, despite attempts by nota
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