olmec

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A member of an ancient pre-Columbian people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco

First elaborate pre-Columbian culture of Mesoamerica. The Olmec lived in the lowland gulf coast of what is now southern Mexico. Developing a wide trading network, their cultural influence spread north to the Valley of Mexico and south to Central America; later native religions and iconography throughout Mesoamerica have Olmec roots. Their oldest known building site, San Lorenzo, which dates to 1150 BC, is remarkable for its colossal stone sculptures of human heads. The dominant motif in Olmec art is the figure of a god that is a hybrid of a jaguar and a human infant. Olmec buildings, monuments, and art style all indicate a complex and nonegalitarian society

The oldest pre-Columbian civilized society in Mesoamerica They occupied the regions in the modern Mexican states of Veracruz and Tobasco

of or relating to the Olmec of Mexico

a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization contered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC

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

a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization contered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC of or relating to the Olmec of Mexico

Этимология

() Nahuatl, meaning rubber people (compare Nahuatl olli (“rubber”)).