Week+5

**Week 5, 6, 7: Topics: Mesoamerica's First Civilization:**
==**[|Gulf Coast Olmec] (Early/Middle Formative – 1200 – 600 BC)** == 



**A. Textbook Readings**  Ch. 5 The Olmecs: Early Formative (c. 1500/1200–900/800 BC) 133 - 162 -  Ch.6 The Olmecs: Middle Formative (c. 900–600 BC) 163 -188 -

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**B. Theory Reading** **Topic 1: States and Monumental Architecture & Symbols & Iconography**  Rosenswig, Robert M **. '** // Chapter 5: Agriculture and Monumentality in the Soconusco Region of Chiapas, Mexico.' // Early New World Monumentality. Edited by Richard L. Burger and Robert M. Rosenswig. University of Florida Press. 2012. Web.

 Clark, J. E. ' //The Arts of Government in Early Mesoamerica'// Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 26: 211-2341. 1997.

**Topic 2: Origins of Writing**
 Justeson, John S. //'The origin of writing systems: Preclassic Mesoamerica.'// World Archaeology Vol. 17 (3): 437 - 458. 1986. Web.  Houston, Stephen D. '//The Archaeology of Communication Technologies.//' Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 33: 223-250. 2004. Web.  Marcus, Joyce. '//The Origins of Mesoamerican Writing'// Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 5: 35-67. 1976. Web.  [Schmandt-Besserat, Denise 'T//he Emergence of Recording.'// American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 84, No. 4:871-878. 1982.Web.]

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