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    San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán or San Lorenzo is the collective name for three related archaeological sites—San Lorenzo, Tenochtitlán and Potrero Nuevo—located...
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    their development in San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, but moved to La Venta in the 10th century BCE following the decline of San Lorenzo. The Olmecs disappeared...
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    colossal heads were sculpted from spherical boulders but two from San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán were re-carved from massive stone thrones. An additional monument...
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  • San Lorenzo Texmelucan, Oaxaca San Lorenzo Victoria, Oaxaca San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, an ancient center of the Olmec culture, in Veracruz San Lorenzo...
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    kilometres (19 mi) south of the Laguna Catemaco. With Tres Zapotes, San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, and La Venta, Laguna de los Cerros is considered one of the four...
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  • BC: Olmec culture starts and thrives in Mesoamerica. c. 1200 BC: San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán starts to flourish. c. 1200 BC: Ancestral Puebloan civilization...
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  • culture, and the Proto-Celtic language. The major Olmec site of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán in Mesoamerica declined in importance, after having been active...
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    throughout the Preclassic period. The main sites of the Olmec include San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, La Venta, and Tres Zapotes. Specific dates vary, but these sites...
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    or the Olmec Metropolitan Zone. The major heartland sites are: San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán La Venta Tres Zapotes Laguna de los Cerros - the least researched...
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    archaeological site in Veracruz, Mexico, a few kilometers south of the San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán complex and generally considered contemporary with it (perhaps...
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    shards and clay figurines and from these the block is dated to the San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán phase, which ended c. 900 BCE, preceding the oldest Zapotec writing...
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    sometimes referred to as the third major Olmec capital (after San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán and La Venta), but the Olmec phase is only a portion of the site's...
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    figures to its civilization. At Potrero Nuevo near San Lorenzo, part of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, there is an altar supported by two Atlantean figures...
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    BCE which is around the same time that the Olmec occupation of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán began to weaken. The Maya writing system was logosyllabic (a combination...
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    around 1600 to 1500 BC. Olmec features first emerged in the city of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, fully coalescing around 1400 BC. The rise of civilization was...
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    of La Venta is abandoned (approximate date).[citation needed] San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán is abandoned (approximate date).[citation needed] The Bianzhong...
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    city. La Venta – In the present day Mexican state of Tabasco. San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán – In the present day Mexican state of Veracruz. Teotihuacan – Pre-Aztec...
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    Las Higueras, Quiahuiztlán, El Tajín, Cempoala, Tres Zapotes and San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán. The first major civilization in the territory of the current state...
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    Some evidence suggests cacao consumption in the Olmec regions of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán. Large vases found suggest that the Olmec used cacao for mass gathering...
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    civilization developed and flourished at such sites as La Venta and San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, eventually succeeded by the Epi-Olmec culture between 300–250...
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    Adam Jones, ed, Evoking Genocide (2009), pp. 5 Diego Rivera, La Gran Tenochtitlán Lost Worlds (PDF). Black, Jeremy, ed. World History Atlas. London: Dorling...
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    sacrificial offering. Excavations at the nearby Olmec site of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán have also uncovered a number of ballplayer figurines, radiocarbon-dated...
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    Olmec sites of La Venta, San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, Laguna de los Cerros, and Tres Zapotes. By no later than 1200 BCE, San Lorenzo had emerged as the most...
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    2018. Retrieved 27 May 2018. Ann Cyphers, Escultura Olmeca de San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de...
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    of Veracruz, Mexico. El Tajín La Conchita Santa Luisa El Manatí San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán Macayal Pánuco Laguna de los Cerros Arroyo Sonso Los Soldados Sayula...
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  • from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2015-06-20. Cyphers, Ann. "San Lorenzo". In Kathleen Berrin; Virginia M. Fields (eds.). OLMEC: Colossal Masterworks...
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    he completed his dissertation titled, "The Lithic Industries of San Lorenzo-Tenochtitlán: An Economic and Technological Study of Olmec Obsidian" on the...
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    consolidation of power at their capital, a site today known as San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán near the coast in southeast Veracruz. The Olmec influence extended...
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    Paso de la Amada and San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, among many others. According to John E. Clark, "by the end of the San Jose Phase, San Jose Mogote was clearly...
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  • occurred in 1938. Matthew Stirling first visits the Tres Zapotes and San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán sites. The Iron Age farmstead site at Little Woodbury, Wiltshire...
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