Research Guides: Selected Resources on Ancient Mesoamerica: Theses and Dissertations on the Olmec

Theses and Dissertations on the Olmecs

Americas' First Colony: Olmec Materiality and Ethnicity at Canton Corralito, Chiapas, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
David Cheetham, Ph.D.
Arizona State University, 2010
738 pages
An Archaeological Survey in the Region of the Olmec, Veracruz, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Robert Paul Kruger, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh, 1996
411 pages
Early Formative Domestic Organization and Community Patterning in the San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan Region, Veracruz, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Carl John Wendt, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University, 2003
671 pages
From the Land Between Swamps: Cuauhtemoc in an Early Olmec World
Doctoral Dissertation
Robert M. Rosenswig, Ph.D.
Yale University, 2005
460 pages
Las Galeras and San Lorenzo: A Comparative Study of Two Early Formative Communities in Southern Veracruz, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Laura Catalina O'Rourke, Ph.D.
Harvard University, 2002
591 pages
Of Meandering Rivers and Shifting Towns: Landscape Evolution and Community within the Grijalva Delta
Doctoral Dissertation
Christopher Lynn von Nagy, Ph.D.
Tulane University, 2003
1690 pages;
The Lithic Industries of San Lorenzo-Tenochtitlan: An Economic and Technological Study of Olmec Obsidian
Doctoral Dissertation
Jason P. De Leon, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University, 2008
523 pages
Olmec: An Early Art Style of Pre-Columbian Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Charles Robinson Wicke, Ph.D.
The University of Arizona, 1965
215 pages
Olmec Monuments as Agents of Social Memory
Doctoral Dissertation
Jillian Louise Mollenhauer, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego, 2010
501 pages
A Reapprasial of Olmec Chronology
Doctoral Dissertation
Robert J. Squier, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley, 1964
293 pages
A Settlement Survey of La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
William F. Rust, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, 2008
1842 pages
The Olmecs as a Developmental Influence in Preclassic and Postclassic Mesoamerica
Master's Thesis
Douglas Kevin Williams, M.A.
California State University, Fresno, 1997
172 pages
Prehistoric Basalt Exploitation and Core-Periphery Relations Observed from the Cerro el Vigia Hinterland of Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Mark Andrew Raphael Kruszczynski, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh, 2001
409 pages
An Unexplored Realm in the Heartland of the Southern Gulf Olmec: Investigations at El Marquesillo, Veracruz, Mexico
Doctoral Dissertation
Travis F. Doering, Ph.D.
University of South Florida, 2007
473 pages
Settlement Distribution and the Development of Cultural Complexity in the Lower Coatzacoalcos Drainage, Veracruz, Mexico: An Archaeological Survey at San Lorenzo, Tenochtitlan
Doctoral Dissertation
Stacey Clover Symonds, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University, 1995
1121 pages
The Structure and Periodization of the Olmec Representational System
Doctoral Dissertation
Anatole Pohorilenko, Ph.D.
Tulane University, 1990
1961 pages
Sex and Gender in Olmec Art and Archaeology
Doctoral Dissertation
Billie J. A. Follensbee, Ph.D.
University of Maryland College Park, 2000
688 pages
Style and Stone Technology in Ancient Mesoamerica
Doctoral Dissertation
Carolyn Loss Winters, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley, 1997
469 pages
Tripping Over Colossal Heads: Settlement Patterns and Population Development in the Upland Olmec Heartland
Doctoral Dissertation
Joshua Alan Borstein, Ph.D.
The Pennsylvania State University, 2001
476 pages

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