Testing at Isla Alor in the La Venta Olmec Hinterland

Settlement and subsistence among the Early Formative Gulf Olmec

“…Although La Venta may contain an Early Formative component (e.g., Raab et al, 2000;Rust and Leyden, 1994;Rust and Sharer, 1988), politico-economic complexity at the site is generally attributed to the Middle Formative period (900-400 BC) and thus post-dates the Early Formative changes addressed here (González Lauck, 2000;Pool, 2007, pp. 158-160).…”

Sourcing archaeological bitumen in the Olmec region

“…Archaeological bitumen samples were acquired from Early Preclassic contexts at eight Olmec sites e El Remolino, El Azuzul, Isla Alor, Loma del Zapote, Paso los Ortices, San Lorenzo, El Macayal, and La Nueva Abundancia (Fig. 1, Table 2) [7e 10,32,33,39,41,42].…”