Dumbarton Oaks Conference on the Olmec

October 28th and 29th, 1967

Elizabeth P. Benson, Editor
Electronic Text
The proceedings of a Conference on the Olmec held at Dumbarton Oaks on October 28th and 29th, 1967—the first on the Olmec since the Mesa Redonda in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in 1942. These sessions came at a time when there was a good deal of fresh material from recent excavations, both in the Olmec "heartland" and in sites in other areas where there is evidence of Olmec influence.

Matthew W. Stirling: "Early History of the Olmec Problem"

Robert F. Heizer: "New Observations on La Venta"

Michael D. Coe: "San Lorenzo and the Olmec Civilization"

Kent V. Flannery: "The Olmec and the Valley of Oaxaca: A Model for Inter-Regional Interaction in Formative Times"

Tatiana Proskouriakoff: "Olmec and Maya Art: Problems of their Stylistic Relation"

Ignacio Bernal: "Views of Olmec Culture"

Peter T. Furst: "The Olmec Were-Jaguar Motif in the Light of Ethnographic Reality"

David C. Grove: "The Pre-Classic Olmec in Central Mexico: Site Distributions and Inferences"