Ol·mec

(ŏl′mĕk, ōl′-)

n. pl. Olmec or Ol·mecs

1. An early Mesoamerican Indian civilization centered in the Veracruz region of southeast Mexico that flourished between 1300 and 400 bc, whose cultural influence was widespread throughout southern Mexico and Central America.

2. A member of any of various peoples sharing the Olmec culture.

[Nahuatl Ōlmēcah, plural of Ōlmēcatl, an Olmec, from Ōlmān, Olmec homeland (literally, "land of rubber"), from ōlli, rubber from the tree Castilla elastica.]

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Olmecs

The Olmecs flourished between 800 BC and AD 200. They developed a counting system and a calendar, carved stone statues, and wrote using hieroglyphics. La Venta, the site ruins in Tabasco, was a major Olmec settlement.

References in periodicals archive

(11) Michael Coe, Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2008), p.

Itz and the Descent of Kukulkan: Central Mexican Influence on Postclassic Maya Thought

That's about the time that the Olmecs, Mayans, and other Mesoamerican cultures were devising astronomical calendars of stunning accuracy.

Fifteen Steps to Forever: Use these well-know observing targets as incremental stepping stones into the cosmic past

l), it gathers together the remnants of an entire civilisation, or rather sequence of civilizations--from the remotest period of the Olmecs, dating back to the second millennium BC, up to the Aztec empire and its brutal terminus after the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century.

The monuments that made Mexico: John-Paul Stonard on the Museo Nacional de Antropologia

The topics covered in this exceptionally informed and informative history include: Who Were the Champa?; Cham and Khem: The Egyptian Influence on Cham; The Search for Metals; Trans-Pacific Voyaging; The Basalt City of Nan Madol; Elephants and Buddhists in North America; The Cham and the Olmecs; The Cham in Colombia; The Cham and Lake Titicaca; Easter Island and the Cham; the Magical Technology of the Cham; tons more.

The Lost World of Cham

Much ink has been spilled on whether the Early Olmec Horizon Style originated at San Lorenzo and then spread to the rest of Mesoamerica, the position promoted by those who argue that the Gulf Coast Olmecs were the "mother culture" of all other Mesoamerican civilizations [80,125,134].

The Earliest Maya Farmers of Peten: New Evidence from Buenavista-Nuevo San Jose, Central Peten Lakes Region, Guatemala

This would make the Mesoamerican early civilizations, Olmecs, Mayas, and Toltecs forerunners of North American styles and patterns of living, though there are differences between local cultures.

Teaching The First American Civilization Recognizing The Moundbuilders as a Great Native-American Civilization

Law [section]5208, such as submitting a timely sworn notice of intention to make a claim to MVAIC (Olmecs, supra), and filing an accident report within 24 hours of the occurrence unless it was "not reasonably possible to make such a report or that it was made as soon as was reasonably possible." Howard M.

Where MVAIC claimant indicates he was on a motorcycle, burden is on claimant to prove he is a qualified person: new millennium med. imaging, P.C. v M.V.A.I.C

The Olmecs preceded and influenced the Mayans and Aztecs, and thus formed the origins of the Mesoamerican civilization.

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Look at all the evidence of the Afrikans among the Olmecs and Mayans.

On my journey now: the narrative and works of Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the knowledge revolutionary

Some say chocolate was invented, not discovered, and that early civilizations like the Olmecs (in what is now Central America) invented the fermentation, drying, and roasting process.

The savory side of chocolate