La Venta

Ovo je članak o arheološkom nalazištu u Meksiku. Za nalazište fosila u Kolumbiji, v. La Venta (Kolumbija).

La Venta je predkolumbovsko arheološko nalazište olmečke civilizacije smješteno u suvremenoj meksićkoj državi Tabasco.

Literatura

Adams, Richard E W (1991) Prehistoric Mesoamerica, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma.
Coe, Michael; Snow, Dean; Benson, Elizabeth; (1986) Atlas of Ancient America; Facts on File, New York.
Diehl, Richard A. (2004) The Olmecs: America's First Civilization, Thames & Hudson, London.
Gonzalez-Lauck, Rebecca, (2001), "Venta, La (Tabasco, Mexico)", in Evans, Susan, ed., Archaeology of Ancient Mexico and Central America, Taylor & Francis, London.
Grove, D. C., "Public Monuments and Sacred Mountains: Observations on Three Formative Period Sacred Landscapes" Arhivirano 2007-09-27 na Wayback Machine-u, in Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica, Dumbarton Oaks, 1999, p 255.
Heizer, Robert F. (1967) "New Observations on La Venta", in Dumbarton Oaks Conference on the Olmec, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.
Pool, Christopher (2007) Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-78882-3.
Reilly, F. Kent (1994) "Enclosed Ritual Spaces and the Watery Underworld In Formative Period Architecture: New Observations On the Function of La Venta Complex A", in Seventh Palenque Round Table, 1989, ed. Virginia M. Fields, Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, San Francisco, pp- 125-135.