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Olmec and Chavin: Reply to Michael D. Coe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Edward P. Lanning
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Abstract

Starting with a similarity between an Olmec design and a specimen from Kotosh, Coe concludes that all New World civilizations derive from Olmec. This study, like others which would derive Peruvian civilization from Mesoamerican origins, is methodologically weak because it treats traits out of their archaeological context and because it assumes diffusion without considering alternative explanations of similarities.

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American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , July 1963 , pp. 99 - 101
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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Coe, Michael D. 1962 An Olmec Design on an Early Peruvian Vessel. American Antiquity, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 579–80. Salt Lake City.Google Scholar
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