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Not just a pretty face: although known for its heads, Olmec civilization broke American ground in pyramids and communication.
; ...first great urban centers in Mexico--the largest in the Olmec empire--more than three millennia ago. Its magnificent...long since disappeared. Still, the rich legacy of the Olmec lives on. The Olmec are often called the mother culture of Mesoamerica...
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The Ancient Olmecs; Monumental Art, Mysterious End
; ...Little is known of the culture now known as Olmec except that it appears to have given rise...artworks offer a tantalizing glimpse of the Olmec world that archeologists and other scholars...continue to probe for clues to its decline. Olmec civilization arose along the Gulf Coast...
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What the Olmecs knew.(3,000-year-old Olmec clay figure is oldest correct image of a human heart)(Brief Article)
; ...exhibition in the United States of the Olmec art of ancient Mexico. So, in January 1996...and his expertise led to a discovery: The Olmec figure, of a man cradling an outsized heart...that the clay figure is the only known Olmec representation of the heart. Bridging medicine...
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Elizabeth P. Benson: An insider's reflections on the wonders of the Olmec.(Arts)(Q&A)
; ...week's standing-room-only news conference on Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico at the National Gallery...the scholars on the National Gallery's Olmec exhibit organizing committee, and with...and La Venta. How was it possible for the Olmec to move them more than 60 miles, then up...
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The Cobata colossal head: an unfinished Olmec monument?
; ...colossal head in 1970 brought the number of such Olmec monuments in the Gulf Coast heartland region...her 1973 catalogue includes it among the 204 Olmec pieces, not the 44 additional doubtfully Olmec ones). Cyphers (1996: 55) describes it as `different...
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Profile: Researchers continue to examine Olmec culture of Central America
; ...Profile: Researchers continue to examine Olmec culture of Central America Host: IRA FLATOW...America, a people we have come to call the Olmec. Mr. STUART: It's the first sort of artistically...like it was made of putty. CHADWICK: The Olmec were thriving in Central America 3,100...
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Scientists uncover source of Olmec jade; Solves 200-year-old mystery: Large vein of the stone is discovered in Guatemala
; ...jade in Latin America in the 18th century, Olmec-style statuettes and axes, crafted more...spent 23 years searching for the source of Olmec jade, took his fiancee to the colonial...say they had already found the source of Olmec jade. Mary Lou Ridinger, whose company...
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2,900-year-old script found on Olmec slab
; ...pattern of the symbols suggest the ancient Olmec civilization was using written language...before 1999, while quarrying an ancient Olmec mound for road-building material. News...Mexico. In 2002, other experts claimed an Olmec cylindrical seal and chips from a stone...
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Maya matters.(Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks)(The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Undemanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript)(Piedras Negras Archaeolology, 1931-1939)(In the Maw of the EarthMonster: Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use)(Ancient Maya Commoners)(Book review)
; ...Press of Colorado; 0-87081-786-8 hardback $55. KARL A. TAUBE. Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks (Pre-Colombian Art at Dumbarton Oaks 2...poignant reminder of how much was in a world now lost. Finally, Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks opens another window into past ideas...
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Pottery Presented as Evidence Of Olmec Culture's Influence
; ...new evidence yesterday that the fabled Olmec, sculptors of ancient Mexico's colossal...hypothesis and those who argue that the Olmec were just one of several "sister" cultures...pottery with symbols and designs in the "Olmec style," only the early Olmec themselves...
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