Neutron Activation Analysis on Olmec Pottery: A View From La Venta

Future Research

In the course of this project many avenues have opened up for further investigation. As more projects incorporate compositional analyses from Olmec sites, the database will be sufficient to monitor vessel movement of much larger spatial and temporal dimensions across Mesoamerica. One interest of mine is to monitor vessel procurement, production, and exchange at Olmec La Venta over its entire ceramic history. If it can be said here that San Lorenzo played little or no role in La Venta’s Early Formative development based on the ceramic evidence, then who was exchanging pottery making knowledge evidenced in the non-local compositional group 1? Answering this question will be pivotal in broadening our understanding of the earliest occupation at La Venta.

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