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    It has been speculated that the Olmecs derived in part from the neighboring Mokaya or Mixe–Zoque cultures. The Olmecs flourished during Mesoamerica's...
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    (62 mi) inland from the coast. The Olmecs are regarded as the first civilization to develop in Mesoamerica and the Olmec heartland is one of six cradles...
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    later pre-Columbian era cultures. The first Mesoamerican civilization, the Olmecs, developed on present-day Mexico southern Gulf Coast in the centuries before...
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    Regional Perspectives on the Olmec. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36332-7. Diehl, Richard A. (2004). The Olmecs: America's First Civilization...
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  • Olmec hieroglyphs are a set of glyphs developed within the Olmec culture. The Olmecs were the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization, flourishing...
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    writers suggest that the Olmecs were related to peoples of Africa - based primarily on their interpretation of facial features of Olmec statues. They additionally...
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    civilizations were functional without Olmec influence and describing the Olmecs as the "mother culture" robs the Olmecs and the other civilizations of their...
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    figurines were produced in the Olmec heartland, they bear the hallmarks and motifs of Olmec culture. While the extent of Olmec control over the areas beyond...
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    cultural complexity unknown to the Olmecs. Tres Zapotes and eventually Cerro de las Mesas were the largest Epi-Olmec centers though neither would reach...
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    Werejaguar (redirect from Olmec were-jaguar)
    Jaguar-Human Copulation Scenes in Olmec Art". American Antiquity 43(3): 453-457. Diehl, Richard (2004). The Olmecs: America's First Civilization. Ancient...
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  • Epi-Olmec ("post-Olmec") may refer to: Epi-Olmec culture, pre-Columbian archaeological culture/area in the coastal Veracruz region of Mexico, ca. 300BCE–250CE...
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  • Priests, that started in October 2017. The team took its name from the Olmecs, a Mesoamerican civilization, known for their stone colossal heads, hence...
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  • causes and degree of Olmec influences on Mesoamerican cultures has been a subject of debate over many decades. Although the Olmecs are considered to be...
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    Coe disputing the Justeson-Kaufman findings. Diehl, Richard A. (2004) The Olmecs: America's First Civilization, Thames & Hudson, London. Houston, Stephen...
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    1500 to 500 BC) the Olmecs fashioned mirrors from iron ore, including minerals such as hematite, ilmenite and magnetite. The Olmecs preferred to manufacture...
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    Cascajal Block (redirect from Olmec script)
    amounted to rock-solid proof that the Olmecs had a form of writing. Diehl has believed "all along" that the Olmecs possessed the ability to write and discovery...
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    (2008). Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 211. Coe, Michael D. (2008). Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs. London: Thames...
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  • The Olmec-Maya and Now (1981–1985) is a series of large, oil-on-canvas paintings by Aubrey Williams. The series grew out of Williams' enduring interest...
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  • 800 BC–700 BC—Pre-Etruscan period in Italy. Etruscan civilization. The Olmecs build pyramids. "Tourist Information – Mexico – Chichen Itza – Mayan Civilization...
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    The Olmecas de Tabasco (English: Tabasco Olmecs) are a professional baseball team in the Mexican League based in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. Their home...
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    Civilization: Discovering the Olmec. New York: The Smithsonian Library. Coe, Michael D.; Rex Koontz (2002). Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs (5th edition...
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    Common names: Tuxtlan jumping pitviper, Olmecan pitviper Metlapilcoatlus olmec is a venomous pitviper species found in Mexico. No subspecies are currently...
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  • host, while Dee Baker is both announcer and voice of a stone head named Olmec who "knows the secrets behind each of the treasures in his temple." Six...
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    Tres Zapotes (category Olmec sites)
    book Fingerprints of the Gods, featuring hypothesises on the origin of the Olmecs. Stirling, p. 5. Pool, p. 250. Pool, p. 246. Williams and Heizer, p. 9....
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    was founded and inhabited by the ancestors of today's Otomi people. The Olmecs, on the other hand, had entered into an expansionist phase that led them...
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    America. These were made by several pre-Columbian cultures including the Olmecs, Maya, Toltecs, and Aztecs. In most cases they were made by city states...
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    Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs (4th ed.). New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-27722-5. Diehl, Richard A. (2004). The Olmecs: America's First...
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    Auction, 41(6), 145–146. Coe, Michael D.; Rex Koontz (2002). Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs (5th edition, revised and enlarged ed.). London and New York:...
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    Jaredites (section Olmecs)
    "OF JAREDITES AND OLMECS". Archived from the original on 2013-02-18. Retrieved 2016-03-11. Douglas K. Christensen. "Jaredites and Olmec - the same?". Book...
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    D. (2002) Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs. London: Thames and Hudson: 64, 75-76. Diehl, Richard (2004). The Olmecs: America's First Civilization...
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