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The San Lorenzo Olmec Period (c. 1150-900 BC)
Two of the traditional types representative of this period, are Limón Incised
(1201) (Figure 5.16) and Calzadas Carved (1202) (Figure 5.17). Figure 5.18 illustrates a
variant of San Lorenzo’s Limón Incised pottery (1201) (Coe and Diehl 1980a:171-174).
This flat bottomed vessel was found in situ among other Early Formative period pieces in
Field 6, and it is representative of numerous other sherds containing the same type of
decorative pattern, incision, paste, and color.
Figure 5.16. Examples of Early Formative, San Lorenzo phase, Limón Incised
Figure 5.17. Examples of Early Formative, San Lorenzo phase, Calzadas Carved
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