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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Olmec sculpture --- Olmecs --- Antiquities --- Coatzacoalcos River Valley (Mexico) --- San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán Site (Mexico) --- Antiquities.

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Indian art --- Rock paintings --- Olmec sculpture. --- Antiquities. --- Indian art. --- Rock paintings. --- Indiens --- Peinture pariétale --- Olmèques. --- Chiapas --- Chiapas (Mexico) --- Mexico --- Guatemala --- Guatemala. --- Mexico. --- Chiapas (Mexique) --- Antiquités.

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Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis on gestational imagery in Formative Period Mesoamerica. In Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture, she identifies the presence of women, human embryos, and fetuses in monuments and portable objects dating from 1400 to 400 BC and originating throughout much of Mesoamerica. This highly original study sheds new light on the prominent roles that women and gestational beings played in Early Formative societies, revealing female shamanic practices, the generative concepts that motivated caching and bundling, and the expression of feminine knowledge in the 260-day cycle and related divinatory and ritual activities. Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture is the first study that situates the unique hollow babies of Formative Mesoamerica within the context of prominent females and the prevalent imagery of gestation and birth. It is also the first major art historical study of La Venta and the first to identify Mesoamerica's earliest creation narrative. It provides a more nuanced understanding of how later societies, including Teotihuacan and West Mexico, as well as the Maya, either rejected certain Formative Period visual forms, rituals, social roles, and concepts or adopted and transformed them into the enduring themes of Mesoamerican symbol systems.

Fetus in art. --- Indian women in art. --- Olmec art --- Olmec mythology. --- Olmec sculpture. --- Pregnancy in art. --- Themes, motives. --- La Venta Site (Mexico)

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This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in creating and institutionalizing social hierarchies. This book focuses specifically on an enigmatic type of public, monumental sculpture known as the 'potbelly' that traces its antecedents to earlier, small domestic ritual objects and ceramic figurines. The cessation of domestic rituals involving ceramic figurines along the Pacific slope coincided not only with the creation of the first monumental potbelly sculptures, but with the rise of the first state-level societies in Mesoamerica by the advent of the Late Preclassic period. The potbellies became central to the physical representation of new forms of social identity and expressions of political authority during this time of dramatic change.

Maya sculpture. --- Olmec sculpture. --- Indian sculpture --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Sculpture, Olmec --- Olmec art --- Sculpture, Mexican --- Mayas --- Sculpture, Maya --- Maya art --- Sculpture, Central American --- Sculpture --- Stone-sculpture --- Social Sciences --- Archeology

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Indian art --- Indian sculpture --- Maya sculpture --- Olmec sculpture --- Art indien d'Amérique --- Sculpture indienne d'Amérique --- Sculpture maya --- Sculpture olmèque --- Catalogs --- Catalogues --- Oaxaca Valley (Mexico) --- Gulf Coast (U.S.) --- Oaxaca, Vallée d' (Mexique) --- Mexique, Côte du golfe du (États-Unis) --- Antiquities --- Catalogs. --- Antiquités