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The Formative Period (1500 BCE-300 CE) of Mesoamerican culture is surveyed with an overview of the Olmec culture. Includes discussion of Olmec stone head sculpture, art, building, writing, and other achievements.
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altar, calendar, conduit drainage system, earth pyramid, hieroglyphic writing, intellectual achievements, massive stone alters, meso american, olmec 1200 400 bce, olmec beliefs, rubber people, stelae, stone heads, were-jaguar, coatzacoalcos river, coatzacoalcos river basin, formative, la venta, mexico connect: pre-classic period of the olmecs, middle america, ngroid facial features, olmec, olmec monoliths, pre-columbian, pre-classic, prehispanic, pyramid, san lorenzo, tabasco, tres zapotes, veracruz, jaguar, olmec (1200 to 400 bc)