Word: olmec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico City-based Photographer Juan Guzman, photographing the ancient remnants of Olmec and Mayan culture has been a long labor of love. Making it a vacation and free-time project, he spent nearly two years completing his self-set assignment, traveled by car, private plane, horseback and at times proceeded on foot, machete in hand. Most difficult site was Yaxchilan in the almost inaccessible Chiapas jungle. To get there, Guzman had to fly in, clear the site by hand, wait for days for a break in the rain. For a view of what Guzman brought out, including the first color...
Archaeologists generally have accepted five Mexican cultures-Mayan, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Totonac and Olmec-as being the oldest in North America, and have dated them around A.D. 300. But last week tests performed at the University...
Michigan proved that the little-known Olmec culture antedates the others by about a thousand years...
...years ago a Smithsonian-National Geographic Society-University of California expedition excavated an Olmec ceremonial center at La Venta, a marsh-surrounded island near the Tovala River. They found among the relics several fragments of charcoal, presumably the remains of ceremonial fires. The carbon 14 content of the charcoal bits taken from La Venta's lowest level gave its average date as 814 B.C., with a maximum possible error of 134 years...