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The Olmec in the Central Highlands: A Non-Quintessential Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Paul Tolstoy
Paul Tolstoy*
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Department of Anthropology, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, P.Q. H3C 3/7, Canada
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Abstract

A recent article by Grennes-Ravitz and Coleman includes several assertions that are not in keeping with the results of recent work in the Basin of Mexico discussed here.

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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , April 1979 , pp. 333 - 337
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1979

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