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The foundations for the Maya and other civilizations of ancientMesoamerica were laid down over 2,400 years ago during the earlyand middle phases of the Formative period. The most elaborate of theseformative Mesoamerican societies are represented by the archaeologicalculture called Olmec, which merged some 3,500 years ago in the tropical lowlands of southern Veracruz and Tebasco, Mexico. Flourishingover the next 1,000 years, the Olmec created the most complex socialand political hierarchies of their time on the North American continent.Olmec rulers expressed their material and religious power in the firstmonumental stone art of Mesoamerica, remarkable for its sophisticationand naturalism, as well as through massive buried offerings of wealthobtained from great distances. Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamericaoffers the most thorough and up-to-date book-length treatment ofOlmec society and culture available.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christopher A. Pool
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521783125
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Anthropology
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