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22 wrz 2010 · Modeling Olmec participation in Early Horizon interaction networks requires better understanding of the relations of Gulf Olmec communities with one another as well as with contemporaries elsewhere in Mesoamerica.
23 lip 2019 · The Olmec trading practices, traced through the movement of goods produced or mined elsewhere, are key to understanding the Early and Middle Formative histories of Mesoamerica. Characteristics of the Olmec trading network include:
18 lut 2005 · The Olmec produced and exported a wide variety of Olmec-style iconography, often on gray-ware pottery, across Mesoamerica. Local production of Olmec-style motifs also occurred in all regions involved in this interaction.
26 cze 2021 · Summary. Between 1400 and 1000 BCE, Olmecs living in the tropical lowlands of southern Veracruz created an urban center and a stratified polity unprecedented in scale and elaboration in Mesoamerica. In this chapter, the author examines the changing physical, economic, political, and symbolic landscapes of the Olmecs and their Epi-Olmec successors.
Changing Olmec trade routes understood through Least Cost Path analysis. Antonio Martínez Tunon Robert M. Rosenswig. 2020, Journal of Archaeological Science. This paper uses Least Cost Path (LCP) analysis to explore travel routes between the Gulf Coast and Soconusco regions of Mexico.
The Olmec are significant because they show the evolution of complex society in Mesoamerica. The urban centers, multi-tiered settlement systems, monumental constructions, craft production, and elaborate trade and exchange systems document the fact that the Olmec were developing the state.
26 paź 2020 · Definition. The name Olmec is a modern corruption of Olmecatl (Nahuatl “rubber people” or “people of the rubber country”), by which the Aztecs referred to the inhabitants of the region during the Late Postclassic period.
