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  The Place of Stone Monuments: Context, Use, and Meaning in Mesoamerica's Preclassic Transition (Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) (Hardback) Edited by Julia Guernsey, Edited by John E. Clark, Edited by Barbara Arroyo

  

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  Short Description for The Place of Stone Monuments This volume considers the significance of stone monuments in Preclassic Mesoamerica, focusing on the period following the precocious appearance of monumental sculpture at the Olmec site of San Lorenzo and preceding the rise of the Classic polities in the Maya region and Central Mexico. By quite literally "placing" sculptures in their cultural, historical, social, political, religious, and cognitiv...
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  • Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
  • Published: 02 November 2010
  • Format: Hardback 384 pages
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  • Categories: History Of The Americas | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Archaeology | Archaeology By Period / Region
  • ISBN 13: 9780884023647 ISBN 10: 0884023648

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• This volume considers the significance of stone monuments in Preclassic Mesoamerica, focusing on the period following the precocious appearance of monumental sculpture at the Olmec site of San Lorenzo and preceding the rise of the Classic polities in the Maya region and Central Mexico. By quite literally "placing" sculptures in their cultural, historical, social, political, religious, and cognitive contexts, the seventeen contributors utilize archaeological and art historical methods to understand the origins, growth, and spread of civilization in Middle America. They present abundant new data and new ways of thinking about sculpture and society in Preclassic Mesoamerica, and call into question the traditional dividing line between Preclassic and Classic cultures. They offer not only a fruitful way of rethinking the beginnings of civilization in Mesoamerica, but provide a series of detailed discussions concerning how these beginnings were dynamically visualized through sculptural programming during the Preclassic period.