Woman with a Baby

The hollow figure has a vent in the bottom and loose pellets which rattle inside. The body is broad and fat, with very wide shoulders and no breasts. The legs are spread apart and folded beneath the figure...

The hundredth meridian, or a line drawn north and south near Toluca, divides ancient Mexico into an eastern half, of high civilizations in densely populated regions, and a western half, of scattered, small, and isolated tribal groupings, whose archaeological history has been recovered only in the last twenty years. In the main, this western history comprises four principal stages: (1) an early era of Olmec style which endured many centuries in Guerrero, with sporadic manifestations farther …