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References citedessay 1987 • Grove, David C. & Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
This is the bibliography for Documents 4-41....Olmec archaeologyarticle 1997 • Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
The first half of this document is a history of Olmec archaeology, examining and evaluating the development of the debate between 'traditionalists,' mostly working within the Olmec core area, who believe in the primacy of the Olmec in the development...Introductionessay 1987 • Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Grove summarizes the history of fieldwork at the Olmec-influenced highland site of Chalcatzingo. Orientation is provided in the form of maps and an outline of associated works found in this collection (Documents 5 through 41)....Miscellaneous bedrock and boulder carvingsessay 1987 • Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Grove provides an inventory describing a variety of stone carvings discovered mostly in survey at the Olmec-influenced highland site of Chalcatzingo. Very few are found in unambiguous or undisturbed context, and there are few temporally diagnostic fe...Other ceramic and miscellaneous artifactsessay 1987 • Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
In the first half of this work, Grove describes ceramic artifacts other than vessels and anthropomorphic figurines from the Olmec-influenced highland site of Chalcatzingo. These are categorized according to function: 1) as personal adornment (beads, ...Raw materials and sourcesessay 1987 • Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Judging from some rather inconclusive sourcing studies done previously, Grove suggests that at the Olmec-influenced highland site of Chalcatzingo iron ores for pigment manufacture probably come from local sources, while mirrors mostly would have been...Comments on the site and its organizationessay 1987 • Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
In this interpretation of the data from survey and excavation in and around the Olmec-influenced highland site of Chalcatzingo, Grove begins with a review the settlement pattern data showing the special status of the site within a regional system, an...Chalcatzingo in in a broader perspectiveessay 1987 • Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Grove systematically considers the place of the site of Chalcatzingo in a wider interaction sphere, beginning with typically highland Early Formative period cultural origins. A summary of the Middle Formative period evidence for cultural connections ...Faunal analysisessay 1987 • Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Bone preservation was poor at the Olmec-influenced highland site of Chalcatzingo, resulting in a limited sample (ranging from the Formative through Classic periods). The recovered remains are discussed by phase, with little or no discernable variatio...'Olmec' Horizons in Formative Period Mesoamericaessay 1993 • Grove, David C.
Highland Mesoamerican Early Preclassic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
This article attempts to re-evaluate the so-called Olmec horizons of Formative period Mesoamerica (the early , late, and modified Olmec horizons). Underlying those horizons is a long-standing belief that they represent Olmec superiority and diffusion...The excavationsessay 1987 • Grove, David C. & Cyphers, Ann
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Grove and Cyphers Guillén systematically describe the excavation of architectural and water control features, graves, and carved stone monuments at the Olmec-influenced highland site of Chalcatzingo. Nearly all surviving Formative period architecture...A Catalogue and description of Chalcatzingo's monumentsessay 1987 • Grove, David C. & Angulo V., Jorge
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Grove and Angulo list and describe the major carved stone monuments (all but one with representative images) according to location within topographically and/or architecturally defined groupings at the highland site of Chalcatzingo. No chronological ...The physical and cultural settingessay 1987 • Grove, David C. et al.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
The authors define the archaeological zone at and around the Olmec-influenced highland site of Chalcatzingo, briefly describing its geographical and historical setting....Chronology and cultural phases at Chalcatzingoessay 1987 • Cyphers, Ann & Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Cyphers Guillén and Grove summarize the radiocarbon evidence for dating the Olmec-influenced highland site of Chalcatzingo, defining the cultural phases and subphases with reference to the site stratigraphy detailed in Cyphers: 1987 (Document 33)....The settlement and its architectureessay 1987 • Prindiville, Mary & Grove, David C.
Olmec • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central Mexico
Prindville and Grove document an innovative, distinctively highland tradition of Formative period public architecture, adorned with stelae and other carved stone monuments at the highland site of Chalcatzingo. Stimulus from the Gulf Coast Olmec is po...