BEING “OLMEC” IN EARLY FORMATIVE PERIOD HONDURAS
Rosemary A. Joyce|John S. Henderson
Abstract Practices and features that many researchers have identified as “Olmec,” even when found outside of the Gulf Coast Mexico, supposed by some to be heartland an Olmec culture, are often a minority within local assemblages with vast differences in style form. This is case Honduras, where objects “Olmec” were clearly locally made. Thus they cannot explained simply terms import Honduras made elsewhere. paper seeks address question, “what did it mean inhabitants Formative period Mesoamerican villages make use whose stylistic them stand out different from others their own communities?” Drawing on data original fieldwork at multiple sites reanalysis museum collections, this proposes model for understanding phenomenon rooted social theories materiality, phenomenological experience personhood, creation identity through entanglement things.
Ancient Mesoamerica