Regional communications in ancient Mesoamerica: Difference between revisions

There are many debates related to the definition of specific sculptures styles,<ref name=Christa >{{cite book |last= Schieber de Lavarreda |first= Christa |year= 1999|title= Taller arqueología de la región de la Costa Sur de Guatemala |trans-title=Archaeological workshop of southern Guatemala region |publisher= Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes |location= Guatemala |language=es |pages=1–10 }}</ref> in general terms the Parsons proposal<ref name=Parsons >{{cite journal book|last= Parsons |first= Lee A |chapter= Post-Olmec Stone Sculpture: The Olmec-Izapan Transition on the Southern Pacific Coast and Highlands |title=The Olmec and Their Neighbors |editor=E. Benson|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks |location= Washington, D.C. |pages=257–288}}</ref> is accepted, in the sense that there is a mesoamerican sculpture tradition from the preclassical to the postclassical periods, with divergent lines, some of which disappear and others with evolving styles from regional development, and that at the same time, with cross information from a region to another, that there are spectacular fashion styles that may vanish at a point in time, only to return adapted to new conditions.<ref name=Icon />

A female ceramic figurine from the Huamuxtitlán valley indicates an archaeological occupation of eastern Guerrero State, contemporary to the Chiapas Ocós Phase (1500–1350 BCE);<ref name=C&M >{{cite documentbook|last= Mary E. Pye |first= Clark, John E. |year=2002 |chapter= Re-Visiting the Mixe-Zoque, Slighted Neighbors and Predecessors of the Early Lowland Maya |title=Southern Maya in the Late Preclassic |editor1=M. Love |editor2=R. Rosensweig |publisher=University of Colorado, Boulder |location=Colorado }}</ref> while the appearance of Olmec type figures in [[Marquelia]] at the [[Costa Chica of Guerrero|Costa Chica]], could prove an Olmec transition process, as proposed for [[Mazatán, Chiapas]] during the Cherla and Cuadros Phases (1350–1150 BCE).<ref name=Clark >{{cite journal |last= Clark |first= John E. |year=1990 |title= Olmecas, olmequismo y olmequización en Mesoamérica |trans-title=Olmecs, olmequism and olmequization in Mesoamerica |journal= Arqueología |location= México |language=es |volume=3 |pages=49–56}}</ref> See [http://www.asociaciontikal.com/pdf/54_-_Mary_Pye.pdf Figure 4 of Huamuxtitlán and Figure 5 Marquelia Page 927]