The Olmec were an early Mesoamerican civilization that existed during the Formative period (1800BCE–300CE). While they are often associated with producing colossal heads, they also engaged in ...

Introducing Olmec archaeology / Mary E. Pye, John E. Clark -- Olmec archaeology after regional perspectives: an assessment of recent research / Richard A. Diehl -- Framing the gulf Olmecs / Barbara L.

All Olmec sculpture was created for a purpose, whether it be religious or political. In the case of Monument 9, it clearly pertains to the Earth, which in Mesoamerica was considered a sacred ...

Three thousand years ago, in what is now southern Mexico, Olmec art and culture flourished. No written documents survive, but the exceptional beauty and technical brilliance of the sculpture and its ...

The Olmec heads are among the largest non-architectural monuments ever discovered in Mexico, ranging between roughly 3.5 and 11.5 feet in height and weighing up to eight tons, with the largest of ...

B.C. might not sound like the best time to punch into a time machine, but for time travellers with a taste for ancient ...

The Olmec civilization developed around present-day Veracruz, Mexico, predating the Maya and Aztecs. Some scholars consider the Olmec society the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica.

The Olmec civilization, Lee added, is often considered “the mother civilization of ancient Mesoamerica.” The Kimbell collection is, Lee said, “a small collection. But we aim to collect ...

Many scholars regard the Olmec as the “mother culture” of ancient Mesoamerica, a civilization where particular types of monumental architecture, sculpture and gods originated. Among the later Maya, ...