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标题：Implications of new petrographic analysis for the Olmec “mother culture” model
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作者：Kent V. Flannery ; Andrew K. Balkansky ; Gary M. Feinman 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2005
卷号：102
期号：32
页码：11219-11223
DOI：10.1073/pnas.0505116102
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Petrographic analysis of Formative Mexican ceramics by J. B. Stoltman et al. (see the companion piece in this issue of PNAS) refutes a recent model of Olmec "one-way" trade. In this paper, we address the model's more fundamental problems of sampling bias, anthropological implausibility, and logical non sequiturs. No bridging argument exists to link motifs on pottery to the social, political, and religious institutions of the Olmec. In addition, the model of unreciprocated exchange is implausible, given everything that the anthropological and ethnohistoric records tell us about non-Western societies of that general sociopolitical level.
关键词：ancient Mexico ; ethnographic models ; reciprocal exchange