Clearing - or perhaps roiling - the murky and often contentious waters of Mesoamerican archeology, a study of 3,000-year-old pottery provides new evidence that the Olmec may not have been the mother ...

Scientists presented new evidence yesterday that the fabled Olmec, sculptors of ancient Mexico's colossal stone heads, were the region's first dominant civilization, a "mother culture" that served as ...

MADISON, Wis., Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Scientists say a study of 3,000-year-old pottery provides new evidence the Olmec may not have been the mother culture after all. The Olmec, who lived 1300-400 B.C. in ...

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 ...

It has been an article of faith among many archaeologists that the flourishing Olmec settlement in Mexico 3,000 years ago was the parent culture of the Maya, Aztec and other civilisations. Then ...

Analysis of 3,000-year-old pottery shards from the ancient Olmec capital of San Lorenzo and other sites contradicts the notion among some researchers that the Olmec civilization was the “mother ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a coastal town served as the center of a “mother culture,” that shaped societies in a wide swath of what’s now southern and central Mexico. Jeffrey P. Blomster of George ...

Analysis of 3,000-year-old pottery shards from the ancient Olmec capital of San Lorenzo contradicts the notion among some researchers that the Olmec civilization was the "mother culture" that laid the ...

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MADISON - Clearing -- or perhaps roiling -- the murky and often contentious waters of Mesoamerican archeology, a study of 3,000-year-old pottery provides new evidence that the Olmec may not have been ...