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Notes on Colossal Head No. 2 from Tres Zapotes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert F. Heizer ,
Tillie Smith  and
Howel Williams
Robert F. Heizer
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California
Tillie Smith
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California
Howel Williams
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California
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Abstract

One of the eleven known colossal stone heads attributed to the Olmec culture of southeastern Mexico has not been previously published. It is now in the town of Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz, and was brought there in 1951 from a locality about 2 mi. north of the village of Tres Zapotes. It is designated as Tres Zapotes Colossal Head No. 2, even though it is probably not associated directly with the Tres Zapotes site which produced Tres Zapotes Colossal Head No. 1. The sculpture weighs about 8.5 short tons and is made of a distinctive olivine-and augite-rich basalt from the Cerro el Vigia not more than 5 mi. away.

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American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , July 1965 , pp. 102 - 104
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1965

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