Las Bocas
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Las Bocas is a minor archaeological site in the Mexican state of Puebla, whose name has become, often erroneously, attached to a wide-ranging style of Olmec-style figurines and pottery.
The Las Bocas site, part of the Balsas River basin, was heavily plundered in the 1960's by looters looking for "Olmec" pottery and figurines. As the prestige associated with "Las Bocas" artifacts grew, that label was given to many similar artifacts, and occasional forgeries, of unknown origin.[1] As as result, the term "Las Bocas" has little archaeological significance.
The first systematic work of archaeological investigation of Las Bocas was made by David Grove in 1967. In 1997, the archaeologist Maria de la Cruz Paillés Hernández started the first of her three seasons at the site.
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- ^ Grove.
[edit] References
- Grove, David C. (2000) "Bocas, Las (Puebla, Mexico)", in Archaeology of Ancient Mexico & Central America: an Encyclopedia; Routledge, London.
- Paillés Hernández, Maria de la Cruz; "Las Bocas, Puebla, Archaeological Project", Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., accessed March 2007.
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