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Olmec and Chavin: Reply to Michael D. Coe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
Abstract
Starting with a similarity between an Olmec design and a specimen from Kotosh, Coe concludes that all New World civilizations derive from Olmec. This study, like others which would derive Peruvian civilization from Mesoamerican origins, is methodologically weak because it treats traits out of their archaeological context and because it assumes diffusion without considering alternative explanations of similarities.
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