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The Cobata colossal head: an unfinished Olmec monument?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Norman Hammond*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215, USA.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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