@article{438458,
      author = {Rosenswig, Robert M.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438458},
      title = {The beginnings of Mesoamerican civilization inter-regional  interaction and the Olmec / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      abstract = {"Mesoamerica is one of several cradles of civilization in  the world. In this book, Robert M. Rosenswig proposes that  we understand Early Formative Mesoamerica as an archipelago  of complex societies that interacted with one another over  long distances and that were separated by less sedentary  peoples. These early "islands" of culture shared an Olmec  artistic aesthetic, beginning approximately 1250 BCE  (uncalibrated), that first defined Mesoamerica as an area  of culture. Rosenswig frames the Olmec world from the  perspective of the Soconusco area of Pacific Chiapas and  Guatemala. The disagreements about Early Formative society  that have raged over the past thirty years focus on the  nature of interregional interaction between San Lorenzo and  other Early Formative regions. He evaluates these debates  from a fresh theoretical perspective and integrates new  data into an assessment of Soconusco society before, during  and after the apogee of the San Lorenzo polity."--BOOK  JACKET.},
      recid = {438458},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxi, 374 p.) :},
      address = {Cambridge, England ;},
      year = {2010},
}