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A Three-Sided Figurine from Izapa, Chiapas, Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Susanna M. Ekholm
Susanna M. Ekholm*
Affiliation:
BYU New World Archaeological Foundation, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas
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Abstract

A three-sided female figurine body was found in Preclassic mound fill during excavations by the BYU-New World Archaeological Foundation at Izapa, Chiapas, Mexico. A suggested partial reconstruction is given. Stratigraphically the figurine dates from the Conchas 2-Mamom phase or earlier. Stylistically it seems best associated with the Conchas 2 figurines of La Victoria, Guatemala. Though double figures are well known from Mesoamerica, this example and a triple-sided Olmec figurine head from Veracruz are the only known triple-sided examples. The multiple figures show a wide spread in southern Mesoamerica, but few have been reported and their significance is unknown.

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American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , July 1968 , pp. 376 - 379
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1968

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