Aportaciones a la iconografía post-olmeca del altiplano central de Guatemala

The paper presents a series of Preclassic sculptures from the Kaminaljuyu region in Guatemala. It discusses the chronological position of a complex forrned by big heads and representations of sitting, fat persons, sculpted in huge round water-carried rocks. It also deals with the opinion of some arc...

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Autor: Navarrete Cáceres, Carlos Alberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Anales de Antropología
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/16834
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/16834
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Iconografía
Kaminaljuyú
Estilo olmeca
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Sumario:The paper presents a series of Preclassic sculptures from the Kaminaljuyu region in Guatemala. It discusses the chronological position of a complex forrned by big heads and representations of sitting, fat persons, sculpted in huge round water-carried rocks. It also deals with the opinion of some archaeologists as to the Pre-Olmec dating of the sculptures and it concludes that their true temporal position corresponds to the Micldle and late Preclassic