Ancient Americas: The Olmec Heads
The Ancients
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The Olmec Culture in Mesoamerica
We are talking about roughly 2000 BCE as the first material elements that we recognize as culturally Olmec. San Lorenzo was an important primary site and then there were a number of secondary and tertiary centers that sort of radiate out from it. Laguna de Loseros sits at the base of the Tushla Mountains where the stone for these monuments and some of the architecture is coming from. And so in the what we call the early formative between 18 1850 to 90850 BCE.
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