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Readings in the substantially weighty sourcebook include articles on Taiwanese folk healers, Aztec religion, African divinity systems, the doctor-patient relationship, American medical ethics and the assumptions inherent to Western medicine...
...historians and archaeologists agree, however, that the Olmec produced the earliest sophisticated art in Mesoamerica and that their distinctive style provided a model for the Maya, Aztec and other later civilizations in the region. According to Joralemon, small-scale Olmec objects made prior to 900 B.C. tend to be ceramic, whereas later pieces were often fashioned of jade and serpentine, rare materials that required great skill to carve. The vast majority of Olmec artifacts are sculptures--figurines, decorated stone stelae, votive axes, altars and the like--some of which were polished to a mirror-like shine...
Wearing a dark suit and tie, Coatsworth leans back comfortably in his chair and says the moves from 20,000 B.C.--"more or less the date human beings first arrived"--through the Aztec and Inca Empires in the 1500's in just two weeks...
THIS FALL, IN AN UNMARKED OFFICE IN THE SUBBASEMENT of the Minnesota state capitol, a team of resource-management planners is fine-tuning the biggest water-diversion project in the history of mankind and the largest transfer of wealth since Cortes acquired the Aztec empire...
...Eric Gravenaard, an M.I.T. junior showingthe Aztec, said the celebration was lucrative aswell...