Research Guides: Selected Resources on Ancient Mesoamerica: Articles on the Olmec

Articles on the Olmec

Another Look at Bufo marinus and the San Lorenzo Olmec
Ann Cyphers, Belem Zúñiga and Anna di Castro
Current Anthropology
Vol. 46, No. S5 (December 2005) (pp. S129-S133)
Special Section: Rethinking the Olmecs and Early Formative Mesoamerica
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Christopher A. Pool, Ponciano Ortiz Ceballos, María del Carmen Rodríguez Martínez and Michael L. Loughlin - The Early Horizon at Tres Zapotes: Implications for Olmec Interaction

Carl J. Wendt - A San Lorenzo Phase Household Assemblage from El Remolino, Veracruz

Olaf Jaime-Riverón - Olmec Greenstone in Early Formative Mesoamerica: Exchange and Process of Production

Jeffrey P. Blomster - Complexity, Interaction, and Epistimology: Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Olmecs in Early Formative Mesoamerica

Liliana Carla Reyes González and Marcus Winter - The Early Formative Period in the Southern Isthmus: Excavations at Barrio Tepalcate, Ixtepec. Oaxaca

David Cheetham - Cultural Imperatives in Clay: Early Olmec Carved Pottery from San Lorenzo and Canton Corralito

Rosemary A. Joyce and John S. Henderson - Being "Olmec" in Early Formative Period Honduras
Asking More and Better Questions: Olmec Archaeology for the Next Katun
Christopher A. Pool
Ancient Mesoamerica
Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009) (pp. 241-252)
The Arts of Government in Early Mesoamerica
J. E. Clark
Annual Review of Anthropology
Vol. 26, (1997) (pp. 211-234)
Cacao and Chocolate: A Uto-Aztecan Perspective
Karen Dakin and Søren Wichmann
Ancient Mesoamerica
Vol. 11, No. 2 (2000) (pp. 55-75)
A Chronological Link between Maya and Olmeca Art
S. K. Lothrop
American Anthropologist
New Series, Vol. 43, No. 3, Part 1 (Jul. - Sep., 1941) (pp. 419-421)
Congenital Deformities and the Olmec Were-Jaguar Motif
Carson N. Murdy
American Antiquity
Vol. 46, No. 4 (Oct., 1981) (pp. 861-871)
The Central Mexican Preclassic: Is There Really Disagreement?
David C. Grove
American Antiquity
Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct., 1977) (pp. 634-637)
Crocodilians and Olmecs: Further Interpretations in Formative Period Iconography
Terry Stocker, Sarah Meltzoff and Steve Armsey
American Antiquity
Vol. 45, No. 4 (Oct., 1980) (pp. 740-758)
Early and Middle Preclassic Culture in the Basin of Mexico
Paul Tolstoy and Louise I. Paradis
Science
New Series, Vol. 167, No. 3917 (Jan. 23, 1970) (pp. 344-351)
Early Formative Pottery from the Tuxtla Mountains and Implications for Gulf Olmec Origins
Philip J. Arnold, III
Latin American Antiquity
Vol. 14, No. 1 (Mar., 2003) (pp. 29-46)
Ecce Bufo: The Toad in Nature and in Olmec Iconography
Alison Bailey Kennedy
Current Anthropology
Vol. 23, No. 3 (Jun., 1982) (pp. 273-290)
Epiclassic Political Organization in Southern Veracruz, Mexico: Segmentary Versus Centralized Integration
Joshua A. Borstein
Ancient Mesoamerica
Vol. 16, No. 1 (2005) (pp. 11-21)
Fiber Technology and Weaving in Formative-Period Gulf Coast Cultures
Billie J. A. Follensbee
Ancient Mesoamerica
Vol. 19, No. 1 (2008) (pp. 87-110)
High-Precision Trace-Element Characterization of Major Mesoamerican Obsidian Sources and Further Analyses of Artifacts from San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, Mexico
Robert H. Cobean, James R. Vogt, Michael D. Glascock and Terrance L. Stocker
Latin American Antiquity
Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1991) (pp. 69-91)
A Linguistic Look at the Olmecs
Lyle Campbell and Terrence Kaufman
American Antiquity
Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan., 1976) (pp. 80-89)
Notes on Colossal Head No. 2 from Tres Zapotes
Robert F. Heizer, Tillie Smith and Howel Williams
American Antiquity
Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jul., 1965) (pp. 102-104)
Olmec archaeology: A half century of research and its accomplishments
David C. Grove
Journal of World Prehistory
Vol. 11, No 1. (pp. 51-101)
Olmec Civilization, Veracruz, Mexico: Dating of the San Lorenzo Phase
Michael D. Coe, Richard A. Diehl and Minze Stuiver
Science
New Series, Vol. 155, No. 3768 (Mar. 17, 1967) (pp. 1399-1401)
An Olmec Serpentine Figurine at Dumbarton Oaks
Michael D. Coe
American Antiquity
Vol. 32, No. 1 (Jan., 1967) (pp. 111-113)
An Olmec "Were-Jaguar" from the Yucatan Peninsula
George Metcalf and Kent V. Flannery
American Antiquity
Vol. 32, No. 1 (Jan., 1967) (pp. 109-111)
On the Logic of Archaeological Inference: Early Formative Pottery and the Evolution of Mesoamerican Societies

Robert J. Sharer, Andrew K. Balkansky, James H. Burton, Gary M. Feinman, Kent V. Flannery, David C. Grove, Joyce Marcus, Robert G. Moyle, T. Douglas Price, Elsa M. Redmond, Robert G. Reynolds, Prudence M. Rice, Charles S. Spencer, James B. Stoltman and Jason Yaeger
Latin American Antiquity
Vol. 17, No. 1 (Mar., 2006) (pp. 90-103
The Olmec in the Central Highlands: A Non-Quintessential Approach
Paul Tolstoy
American Antiquity
Vol. 44, No. 2 (Apr., 1979) (pp. 333-337)
Ceramic Patterns, Social Interaction, and the Olmec: Neutron Activation Analysis of Early Formative Pottery in the Oaxaca Highlands of Mexico
R. Sergio Herreraa, Hector Neffa, Michael D. Glascocka and J. Michael Elam
Journal of Archaeological Science
Vol. 26, No. 8 (August 1999)
(pp. 967-987)
The Olmec Legacy: Cultural Continuity and Change in Mexico's Southern Gulf Coast Lowlands
Thomas W. Killion and Javier Urcid
Journal of Field Archaeology
Vol. 28, No. 1/2 (Spring - Summer, 2001) (pp. 3-25)
Interpretive Challenges in the Study of Early Complexity: Economy, Ritual, and Architecture at Paso de la Amada, Mexico
Richard G. Lesurea and Michael Blake
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Vol. 21, No. 1 (March, 2002)
(pp. 1-24)
How the Olmec Used Bitumen in Ancient Mesoamerica
Carl J. Wendt and Ann Cyphers
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Vol. 27, No. 2, (June, 2008)
(pp. 175-191)
Formative Mexican Chiefdoms and the Myth of the “Mother Culture”
Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Vol. 19, No. 1, (March, 2000)
(pp. 1-37)
Determining Olmec Maize Use Through Bulk Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis
Daniel M. Seinfeld, Christopher von Nagy, and Mary D. Pohl
Journal of Archaeological Science
Vol. 36, No. 11 (November, 2009)
(pp. 2560-2565)
The Origin of Writing Systems: Preclassic Mesoamerica
John S. Justeson
World Archaeology
Vol. 17, No. 3, Early Writing Systems (Feb., 1986) (pp. 437-458)
The San Pablo Pantheon Mound: A Middle Preclassic Site in Morelos, Mexico
David C. Grove
American Antiquity
Vol. 35, No. 1 (Jan., 1970) (pp. 62-73)
Sedentism and Food Production in Early Complex Societies of the Soconusco, Mexico
Robert M. Rosenswig
World Archaeology
Vol. 38, No. 2, Sedentism in Non-Agricultural Societies (Jun., 2006) (pp. 330-355)
So-Called Jaguar-Human Copulation Scenes in Olmec Art
Whitney Davis
American Antiquity
Vol. 43, No. 3 (Jul., 1978) (pp. 453-457)
Testing at Isla Alor in the La Venta Olmec Hinterland
L. Mark Raab, Matthew A. Boxt, Katherine Bradford, Brian A. Stokes and Rebecca B. González Lauck
Journal of Field Archaeology
Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000) (pp. 257-270)
Using Refuse Disposal Patterns to Infer Olmec Site Structure in the San Lorenzo Region, Veracruz, Mexico
Carl J. Wendt
Latin American Antiquity
Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 2005) (pp. 449-466)
What and Where is Olmec Style?: Regional Perspectives on Hollow Figurines in Early Formative Mesoamerica
Jeffrey P. Blomster
Ancient Mesoamerica
Vol. 13, No. 2 (2002) (pp. 171-195)
Some Political Processes of Ranked Societies
Robert M. Rosenswig
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Vol. 19, No. 4, (December, 2000)
(pp. 413-460)
Settlement and Subsistence Among the Early Formative Gulf Olmec
Philip J. Arnold III
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Vol. 28, No. 4 (December, 2009)
(pp. 397-411)
Sourcing Archaeological Bitumen in the Olmec region
Carl J. Wendt and Shan-Tan Lu
Journal of Archaeological Science
Vol. 33, No. 1 (January, 2006)
(pp. 89-97)
Settlement and Subsistence Among the Early Formative Gulf Olmec
Philip J. Arnold III
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Vol. 28, No. 4 (December 2009)
(pp. 397-411)

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