Do Olmec Figurines Resemble Children with Specific Dysmorphology Syndromes?

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 407-415

  Pueschel, Siegfried M ^a  

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ART; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOWN SYNDROME; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEXICO;

ABNORMALITIES; DOWN SYNDROME; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MEDICINE IN ART; MEXICO; SCULPTURE;

EID: 0032188091     PISSN: 00225045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/53.4.407     Document Type: Article

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1. Miguel Covarrubias, Indian Art of Mexico and Central America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957), pp. 50-83.
2. Beatriz de la Fuente, La cabeza colosal de Cobata. Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, no. 43 (Mexico: UNAM, 1976), p. 6.
3. Michael D. Coe, The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico (New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1965), pp. 14, 25-26.
4. Covarrubias, (n. 1) Indian Art.
5. Coe, (n. 3) The Jaguar's Children, pp. 24-26.
6. Michael D. Coe, America's First Civilization (New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1968), p. 15.
7. Covarrubias, (n. 1) Indian Art.
8. Ignacio Bernai, "The Dainzœ preclassic figurines," in The Olmec and Their Neighbors. (Washington, D.C : Dumbarton Oaks, 1981), p. 223.
9. Coe, (n. 3) The Jaguar's Children, pp. 24-26.
10. Ibid., p. 25.
11. Coe, (n. 3) The Jaguar's Children, pp. 24-26; Covarrubias, (n. 1) Indian Art; Coe, (n. 6) America's First Civilization.
12. Coe, (n. 3) The Jaguar's Children, pp. 24-26; Covarrubias, (n. 1) Indian Art; Coe, (n. 6) America's First Civilization.
13. Coe, (n. 3) The Jaguar's Children, pp. 24-26; Covarrubias, (n. 1) Indian Art; Coe, (n. 6) America's First Civilization.
14. Coe, (n. 6) America's First Civilization.
15. Covarrubias, (n. 1) Indian Art.
16. Carson N. Murdy, "Congenital deformities and the Olmec Were-Jaguar motif," American Antiquity, 1981, 46, p. 17-25.
17. Murdy, (n. 14), pp. 10-15; Covarrubias, (n. 1) Indian Art.
18. Murdy, (n. 14), pp. 10-15; Covarrubias, (n. 1) Indian Art.
19. Kenneth L. Jones, Smith's Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation, 4th ed. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1988).
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21. Siegfried M. Pueschel, A Parent's Guide to Down Syndrome: Toward a Brighter Future. (Baltimore, Md.: Paul H. Brookes, 1990), pp. 33-39.
22. Coe, (n. 6) America's First Civilization, p. 32.
23. Peter D. Joralemon, A Study of Olmec Iconography (Washington, D.C: Harvard University Press, Dumbarton Oaks, 1971), p. 121.
24. Coe, (n. 6) America's First Civilization, p. 30.
25. Ibid., p. 30.
26. Michael D. Coe and Richard A. Diehl, The Land of the Olmec. The Archeology of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan (Austin, Tx.: University of Texas Press, 1980), pp. 265-74.