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 Guti�rrez 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"