Beauty and ugliness in Olmec monumental sculpture by Claude-François Baudez

Subjects: “…olmec sculpture…”
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A Study of Olmec Serpentinite: exchange, production, distribution, and consumption during the Early and Middle Formative period in Mesoamerica by Olaf Jaime-Riverón, Dolores Tenorio Castilleros, Thomas Calligaro, Juan Carlos Cruz Ocampo

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Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) as medicine in New Spain and Europe, 1500s–1600s by Liliana Schifter

“… The Olmec, Maya and Mexica were familiar with the properties of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) which they used as the main ingredient of beverages served to elites. …”
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Cultivating Positive Health, Learning, and Community: The Return of Mesoamerica’s Quetzalcoatl and the Venus Star by Santiago Andrés Garcia, Claudia Itzel Márquez

“…For more than 3500 years, since Olmec times (1500–400 BC), the peoples of Mesoamerica have shared with one another a profound way of living involving a deep understanding of the human body and of land and cosmology. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Alpha-1 Orthosteric-Site Binding by a Clade of Central American Pit Vipers (Genera <i>Atropoides, Cerrophidion, Metlapilcoatlus</i>, and <i>Porthidium</i>) by Lee Jones, Callum Waite, Edgar Neri-Castro, Bryan G. Fry

“…We report potent alpha-1 orthosteric site binding in venoms from <i>Atropoides picadoi</i>, <i>Metlapilcoatlus occiduus</i>, <i>M. olmec</i>, <i>M. mexicanus</i>, <i>M. nummifer</i>. …”
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Environmental and Hydrological Changes of Lake Coatetelco in Central Mesoamerica (Southwest Mexico) Over the Holocene and Comparison With Climatic Forcing by Oscar Agesandro García-Arriola, Priyadarsi D. Roy, Irma Gabriela Vargas-Martínez, Ma. Patricia Giron-García, Jason H. Curtis, Isabel Israde-Alcantara, Jesús David Quiroz-Jimenez

“…Variation in seasonal insolation at orbital scales might have forced frequent droughts between ∼6 and 4.2 cal ka BP and the ENSO related short-lived storms possibly led to an unstable hydroclimate after ∼4.2 cal ka BP when the first Olmec settlements commenced in the region. Dissimilarity between this lacustrine archive and speleothems from southwest Mexico for the later part of the Holocene reflected different sensitivities of the geological records to seasonal and-annual precipitation.…”
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Differential Antivenom and Small-Molecule Inhibition of Novel Coagulotoxic Variations in <i>Atropoides, Cerrophidion, Metlapilcoatlus,</i> and <i>Porthidium</i> American Viperid Sn... by Lee Jones, Nicholas J. Youngman, Edgar Neri-Castro, Alid Guadarrama-Martínez, Matthew R. Lewin, Rebecca Carter, Nathaniel Frank, Bryan G. Fry

“…Pseudo-procoagulant activity (i.e., thrombin-like), characterized by the direct cleavage of fibrinogen to form weak fibrin clots, was evident for <i>Atropoides picadoi, Cerrophidion</i><i>tzotzilorum</i>, <i>Metlapilcoatlus mexicanus, M. nummifer, M. occiduus, M. olmec</i>, and <i>Porthidium porrasi.</i> In contrast, other venoms cleaved fibrinogen in a destructive (non-clotting) manner, with <i>C. godmani</i> and <i>C. wilsoni</i> being the most potent. …”
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