The Olmec world / Ignacio Bernal ; translated by Doris Heydon and Fernando Horcasitas.

By:

Bernal, Ignacio, 1910-1992

Contributor(s):

Language: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.Description: xiv, 273 pages: illustrations, maps; 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0520028910
9780520028913
0520015037
9780520015036

Uniform titles:

Mundo olmeca. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

970.3 Ber

LOC classification:

F1219 .B51713 1969

Contents:

The metropolitan Olmecs: -- 1. The Olmec area -- 2. Olmec sites and their architecture -- 3. The arts of sculpture and ceramics -- 4. Olmec society -- 5. Periods of Olmec history --Olmec Mesoamerica: -- 6. The lower and middle preclassic -- 7. Olmecs and Olmecoids: a summary.

Action note:

960814 Charm

Summary: Examines Olmec art, society, and religious beliefs. Traces the efflorescence and decline of the Olmecs, but insists on the basic unity of all Mesoamerican civilization.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	970.3 Ber (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000029168
Books	OCLC Data	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	970.3 Ber (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	0000000000004
Books	OCLC Data	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	970.3 Ber (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	0000000000202

Translation of: El mundo Olmeca.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index.

Examines Olmec art, society, and religious beliefs. Traces the efflorescence and decline of the Olmecs, but insists on the basic unity of all Mesoamerican civilization.

960814 Charm

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