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An Introduction to the Ceramics of Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico

by Clarence Wolsey Weiant. 144 pgs.

Contributors:

   Clarence Wolsey Weiant

Publisher:

  

Place of Publication:

  Washington, DC  

Publication Year:

  1943

Subjects:

Indians of Mexico--Pottery, Pottery--Mexico--Tres Zapotes, Tres Zapotes (Mexico)--Antiquities

	CONTENTS
	Preface	XI
	Introduction	1
	Description of the archeological zone	1
	The Cabeza Group	2
	The Ranchito Group	3
	The Arroyo Group	3
	The North Group	3
	The excavations	6
	The Cabeza Colosal	6
	Cabeza Group, Mound E	6
	Stela A	7
	Ranchito Group	7
	Zone of the burials	7
	Mound A	9
	Mound C	9
	Mound D and adjacent areas	10
	Miscellaneous excavations	11
	Mounds J and K	11
	Mound F	12
	Arroyo Group	12
	The Plaza	12
	The Long Mound (C)	13
	Mound G (the Stone Platform)	13
	Mound F	14
	Mound B	14
	Mounds I and J	15
	Part 1. The pottery	16
	Middle Tres Zapotes A: Classification	16
	Unslipped or partially slipped wares	16
	Monochrome wares	17
	Dichrome (Red-and-White Incised) ware	19
	Middle Tres Zapotes B: Classification	19
	Unslipped or partially slipped wares	19
	Monochrome wares	20
	Wares with painted decoration	21
	Upper Tres Zapotes: Classification	22
	Unslipped or partially slipped wares	23
	Monochrome wares	26
	Pseudodichrome wares	29
	Dichrome wares	30
	Pseudotrichrome wares	30
	Trichrome wares	31
	The general Ranchito collection	55
	Wares and their relative frequency	55
	Classification and enumeration of sherds with painted decoration	56
	Part 1. The pottery -- Continued. page
	The general Ranchito collection -- Continued. PAGE
	Forms and sizes of vessels	60
	Forms of support	63
	Handles	68
	Spouted vessels	68
	Distribution of forms according to ware	68
	Decorative techniques other than painting	69
	Miscellaneous and aberrant specimens	76
	Specimens of special value for comparative purposes	80
	Part 2. The figurines	84
	Tres Zapotes figurines of archaic type	84
	Classic Pointed-chin type (pls. 1, 2)	84
	Classic Prognathous type (pl. 3)	84
	Classic Rectangular-face type (pls. 4, 5)	85
	Classic Beatific type (pls. 6, 7)	85
	A typical Transitional type (pl. 8)	86
	A typical Transitional type (pl. 9)	86
	Typical Vaillant's A Type (pls. 10, 11, 12)	87
	Typical Grotesque variants (pls. 13, 14)	88
	Interrelation of typical types (pl. 15)	89
	A Uaxactun type (pls. 16, 17)	90
	Baby-faces (pls. 18, 19)	90
	Morelos types (pls. 20, 21)	92
	Variants (pl. 22)	93
	Variants (pl. 23)	93
	An aberrant group (pl. 24)	94
	Two aberrant groups (pl. 25)	94
	Miscellaneous variant and aberrant specimens (pl. 26)	94
	Miscellaneous variant and aberrant specimens (pl. 27)	96
	Profiles (pl. 28)	96
	Early deities (pl. 29)	97
	Major archaic types (pl. 30)	97
	Unclassified (pl. 31)	98
	Bodies (pls. 32-36)	98
	Primitive Maya and allied types (pl. 37)	100
	Figurines reflecting the high cultures	101
	A Teotihuacán type (pl. 38)	101
	Some Middle American deities (pl. 39)	102
	Miscellaneous figurines (mostly unclassified) (pl. 40)	103
	Mold-made Mayoid figurines (pls. 41, 42, 43)	104
	"Totonac" figurines (pl. 44)	106
	Some "Totonac"- Maya comparisons (pl. 45)	107
	Whistles and musical instruments	108
	Whistles of the Tuxtla region (pl. 46)	108
	Ocarinas (pl. 47)	108
	Bird effigies (pl. 48)	108
	Birds and reptiles (pl. 49)	109
	The coati-mundi and unidentified forms (pl. 50)	109
	Monkeys and miscellaneous mammals (pls. 51, 52)	110
	Tubular instruments (including a panpipe) (pl. 53)	110
	Part 3. Miscellaneous ceramic material and work in stone	112
	Special pottery and figurine fragments	112
	Effigy handles (pls. 54, 55)	112
	Effigy necks (pl. 56)	112
	Sculptured pottery (pl. 57)	113
	An effigy vessel, a figurine, and a mask (pl. 58)	114
	Miscellaneous vessels, sherds, and pottery objects (pl. 59)	114
	Miscellaneous effigies (pl. 60)	115
	Limb fragments of jointed and large hollow figurines (pl. 61)	116
	Miscellaneous clay objects	116
	Seals (pls. 62, 63)	116
	Spindle whorls and beads (pl. 64)	117
	Ear spools, rings, and beads (pl. 65)	117
	Work in stone (pls. 66-78)	118
	Stone yokes	118
	Metates,	118
	Stone vessels	118
	Stone rings	119
	Sling stones	119
	Human figures	119
	Miscellaneous stone objects	119
	Minor stone objects	120
	Jade	120
	Galena	121
	Obsidian	121
	Part 4. Synthesis	122
	Problems	122
	Differential features of Middle Tres Zapotes A and B and Upper Tres Zapotes	122
	Q complex elements	124
	The archaic question	124
	The Olmec question	126
	Relations with the Maya Old Empire	127
	Relations with the Maya Renaissance	128
	Relations with Teotihuacán	128
	Relations with Totonacapán	129
	Relations with Zapotecan culture	130
	Relations with the Mixteca-Puebla culture	131
	Relations with the Huaxteca	131
	Aztec remains	131
	General conclusions	132
	Bibliography	133
	Appendix. Inventories of representative burials	139
	Index	141

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