Word: heizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Heizer, one of the leaders of the La Venta expedition, believes that the Olmecs' radiocarbon dates will "force a total chronological reassessment of early American history." His hope is that the shadowy Olmecs may have had other centers in Mexico or Central America, perhaps in places where the climate is not so hard on relics. A peculiar ruin at Tlatilco near Mexico City may be one of them...