Bibliograph

Discovering the Olmecs, an unconventional history, by David C. Grove

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Discovering the Olmecs, an unconventional history, by David C. Grove

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Discovering the Olmecs

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

881386123

Responsibility statement

by David C. Grove

Series statement

William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere

Sub title

an unconventional history

Summary

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 lives of the Olmecs, who inhabited parts of the modern Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco from around 1150 to 400 BC. Beginning with the first modern explorations in the 1920s, the story of how generations of archaeologists and local residents have uncovered the Olmec past and pieced together a portrait of an ancient civilization that left no written records unfolds. From stories of fortuitous discoveries and frustrating disappoints, helpful collaborations and deceitful shenanigans emerges the unconventional history of Olmec archeology

Table Of Contents

The Olmecs come to light -- The Tulane Expedition and the Olmec world (1925-1926) -- The first excavations : Tres Zapotes (1938-1940) -- Stone heads in the jungle (1940) -- Fortuitous decisions at La Venta (1942-1943) -- Monuments on the Río Chiquito (1945-1946) -- The return to La Venta (1955) -- Of monuments and museums (1963, 1968) -- Adding antiquity to the Olmecs (1966-1968) -- Research headaches at La Venta (1967-1969) -- Reclaiming La Venta (1984 to the present) -- San Lorenzo yields new secrets (1990-2012. Part 1) -- El Manatí : "like digging in warm Jell-O" (1987-1993) -- "They're blowing up the site!" : Tres Zapotes after Stirling (1950-2003) -- An Olmec stone quarry and a sugarcane crisis (1991) -- Discoveries large and small at San Lorenzo (1990-2012. Part 2) -- The night the lights went out (2001) -- Some thoughts on the archaeology of the Olmecs

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