INAH: Mexico's Olmec Civilization More Expansive than Previously Thought Hispanically Speaking News
go to original January 30, 2014

The Giant Stone Heads of the Olmec: Carved from single boulders of basalt, the giant stone heads of the Olmec have amazed and mystified archaeologists for more than 150 years. (BBC/gnawmot's channel)

A recent study and publication by Mexico’s Museum of National Anthropology (INAH) indicates the Olmec civilization was territorially more expansive than previously thought.

Studies conducted in the pre-Colombian archaeological site of ‘La Venta’ indicate that the Olmec civilization existed beyond the Gulf of Mexico, in the states of Veracruz and Tabasco, where it was centered.  Physical evidence from the La Venta site indicate that the Olmec’s, which thrived from 1,200 to 400 BCE, existed well beyond the Gulf of Mexico region into the southern Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca and all the way down into Guatemala.

The ‘La Venta’ site contains the earliest known pyramid of Mesoamerica known as the “Great Pyramid.”

Archaeologists had found previous evidence that the Olmec influence went as far south as Nicaragua but this is the first time that the territorial expansion has been studied and proven with physical evidence.

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