Discovering the Olmecs: an unconventional history

The Olmecs come to light

The Tulane Expedition and the Olmec world (1925-1926)

The first excavations : Tres Zapotes (1938-1940)

Stone heads in the jungle (1940)

Fortuitous decisions at La Venta (1942-1943)

Monuments on the Río Chiquito (1945-1946)

The return to La Venta (1955)

Of monuments and museums (1963, 1968)

Adding antiquity to the Olmecs (1966-1968)

Research headaches at La Venta (1967-1969)

Reclaiming La Venta (1984 to the present)

San Lorenzo yields new secrets (1990-2012. Part 1)

El Manatí : "like digging in warm Jell-O" (1987-1993)

"They're blowing up the site!" : Tres Zapotes after Stirling (1950-2003)

An Olmec stone quarry and a sugarcane crisis (1991)

Discoveries large and small at San Lorenzo (1990-2012. Part 2)

The night the lights went out (2001)

Some thoughts on the archaeology of the Olmecs.