New research explores the importance of the ballgame to ancient Mesoamerican societies. Dr. Blomster's findings show how the discovery of a ballplayer figurine in the Mixteca Alta region of Oaxaca ...

Archaeologists working in northwestern Yucatan have identified a formal Maya ball court that may date as far back as 2,800 ...

Scientists have documented the very earliest indigenous stone tool tradition in southern Mesoamerica. From the perspective of Central and South America, the peopling of the New World was a complex ...

ANTH copy Purchased from the Jean Axelrod Acquisitions Endowment. Materializing the San Lorenzo Olmecs / David Cheetham and Jeffrey P. Blomster -- Defining early Olmec style pottery: techniques, forms ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- With one arm raised and a determined scowl, the figure looks ready to march right off his carved tablet and into the history books. If only we knew who he was - corn god? Tribal chief ...

At a sprawling ceremonial complex in southern Mexico, archaeologists say they have identified a 3,000‑year‑old layout that appears to encode a vision of the universe in earth and stone. The site, ...

investigates the relationships between domestic mobility, subsistence economy, and social organization at the initial Early Formative period (1900-1500 cal B.C.) site of La Consentida. Rediscovered in ...

Virginia M. Fields, a leading scholar of early Mesoamerican art and archaeology who joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s curatorial staff in 1989 and devoted 22 years to making the museum a ...

From the perspective of Central and South America, the peopling of the New World was a complex process lasting thousands of years and involving multiple waves of Pleistocene and early Holocene period ...

From the perspective of Central and South America, the peopling of the New World was a complex process lasting thousands of years and involving multiple waves of Pleistocene and early Holocene period ...