This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic
period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social
identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of
monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political
context and demonstrates the role that such sculpture played in
creating and institutionalizing social hierarchies. This book
focuses specifically on an enigmatic type of public, monumental
sculpture known as the 'potbelly' that traces its antecedents to
earlier, small domestic ritual objects and ceramic figurines. The
cessation of domestic rituals involving ceramic figurines along the
Pacific slope coincided not only with the creation of the first
monumental potbelly sculptures, but with the rise of the first
state-level societies in Mesoamerica by the advent of the Late
Preclassic period. The potbellies became central to the physical
representation of new forms of social identity and expressions of
political authority during this time of dramatic change.
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