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An Olmec Mask from the Maya Lowlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. Eric S. Thompson
J. Eric S. Thompson*
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Essex, England
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Abstract

An Olmec mask from northern Petén is a very rare witness to Olmec contact with the Maya lowlands (Central area).

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American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , October 1969, pp. 478 - 480
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1969

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