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‘Olmec Blue’ and Formative jade sources: new discoveries in Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

R. Seitz
Affiliation:
Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, 44 Concord Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
G. E. Harlow
Affiliation:
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York NY 10024–5192, USA
V. B. Sisson
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Science, MS-126, Rice University, Houston TX 77005-1892, USA
K. E. Taube
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside CA 92521-0418, USA

Abstract

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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