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olmec::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | amerindian, native american |
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Olmec studies began around 1860 at a site that would become known as Tres Zapotes.
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Olmec art and concepts influenced surrounding cultures after their downfall.
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Olmec art-forms emphasize monumental statuary and small jade carvings.
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Olmec artworks are considered among ancient America's most striking.
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Olmec culture was unknown to historians until the mid-19th century.
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Olmec figurines were also found abundantly through their period.
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Olmec influence caused the small spread-out villages here to coalesce into larger entities and build ceremonial centers.
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Olmec artisans sculpted jade and clay figurines of Jaguars and humans, and giant heads of the emperor stood in every major city.
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Olmec cultural traits diffused through Mexico into other formative era cultures in Chiapas, Oaxaca and the Valley of Mexico.
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- A member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC
- The Olmec were a Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, near the modern-day cities of Veracruz and Tabasco.
- (Olmecs) First civilisation to arise in Mexico and Guatemala, in last millennium BC.
- The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E., the Olmec people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide-ranging trade, ceremonial centers, and monumental construction. ...
- Mayan civilization in Mexico famed for their giant sculpted heads.
- A Mesoamerican culture on the Mexican gulf coast which was at its height from 1200 to 600 B.C. They influenced other great civilizations of Mesoamerica, including the Maya. ...
- The Olmec civilization of Middle America has been called the "mother culture of the Caribbean Basin" by many historians. As ancestors to the Maya, the Olmec invented a remarkable mathematical language and an extraordinary calendar system based on the true Tropical-Solar Year.
- The talking stone-face host from the Nickelodeon game show Legends of the Hidden Temple explaining how to get through the temple. Various phrases in Olmec''s speech are replaced.
