Discovering the Olmecs : an unconventional history
| 1. Verfasser: |
Grove, David C.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Austin, TX :
University of Texas Press,
2014.
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| Ausgabe: | First edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
viii, 197 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
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| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Mexiko |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
