Bibliography of the Mother-Sister Controversy
Blanton, Richard E., Stephen A. Kowalewski, Gary M. Feinman, and Jill Appel. 1981. Ancient Mesoamerica: a comparison of change in three regions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Blomster, Jeffrey P., Hector Neff, and Michael D. Glascock. 2005. Olmec Pottery Production and Export in Ancient Mexico Determined Through Elemental Analysis. Science 307:1068-1072.
Carver, Martin. 2006. Editorial. Antiquity 80(307):5-8.
Cyphers, Ann. 1999. From stone to symbols: Olmec art in social context at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán. In Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica. David C. Grove and Rosemary A. Joyce, eds. Pp. 155-181. Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks.
Diehl, Richard A. 2005. Patterns of Cultural Primacy. Science 307:1055-1056.
Flannery, Kent V. 1968. The Olmec and the Valley of Oaxaca: a model of inter-regional interaction in Formative times. In Dumbarton Oaks Conference on the Olmec. E. Benson, ed. Pp. 79-110. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks.
Flannery, Kent V., et al. 2005. Implications of new petrographic analysis for the Olmec "mother culture" model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(32):11219-11223.
Flannery, Kent V. and Joyce Marcus. 2000. Formative Mexican chiefdoms and the myth of the "Mother Culture". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19(1):1-37.
Kowalewski, Stephen A. 2003 Scale and the explanation of demographic change: 3,500 years in the valley of Oaxaca. American Anthropologist 105(2):313-325.
Neff, Hector. 2006. The Olmec and the origins of Mesoamerican civilisation. Antiquity 80:714–716
Neff, Hector, et al. 2006. Methodological issues in the provenance investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican ceramics. Latin American Antiquity 17(1):54-57.
Neff, Hector, et al. 2006. Smokescreens in the provenance investigation of Early Formative Mesoamerican ceramics. Latin American Antiquity 17(1):104-118.
Rodriguez Martinez, Ma. del et al. 2006. Oldest writing in the New World. Science 313:1610-1614.
Santley, Robert S. 1992. Debating Oaxaca archaeology. Journal of Field Archaeology 19(1):100-105.
Sharer, Robert J., et al. 2006. On the logic of archaeological inference: Early Formative pottery and the evolution of Mesoamerican societies. Latin American Antiquity 17(1):90-103.
Stoltman, James B., Joyce Marcus, Kent V. Flannery, and James H. M. R. G. Burton. 2005. Petrographic evidence shows that pottery exchange between the Olmec adn their neighbors was two-way. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(32):11213-11218.
Wendt, Carl J. and Shan-Tan Lu. 2006. Sourcing archaeological bitumen in the Olmec region. Journal of Archaeological Science 33(1):89-97.
Willey, Gordon R. 1984. Changing conceptions of lowland Maya culture history. Journal of Anthropological Research 40(1):41-59.
This bibliography is a part of the About.com Guide to the Olmec Civilization, and one of 50 Topic Bibliographies of Archaeology collected here at About.com.
