"This dissertation contributes to a growing body of literature which considers the problems of redacted histories, re-formed memories, and competing identities in relation to the Olmec societies of ...
How did an ancient society quarry and move 50 ton stone monuments across treacherous terrain without modern technology? While historians often point to log rollers and rafts, the physical reality of ...
What hidden knowledge lies buried beneath the ancient pyramids and dense rainforests of the Americas? Explorer and ...
In an article recently published in Latin American Antiquity, Dr. Jill Mollenhauer argues that the Gulf Lowland Olmec, one of Mesoamerica's earliest major civilizations, sometimes incorporated ...
Aug. 3 (UPI) --An Olmec cave mask dating back almost 3,000 years was returned to Mexico in July after an investigation by prosecutors in Manhattan with Homeland Security discovered it had been looted ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists discovered 478 Mesoamerican monuments hidden in the jungles of southeastern Mexico. They located the ruins by ...
Starting around 1200 B.C., in southern Mexico, the Olmec created what most scholars agree was the first New World civilization, building large cities with monumental architecture, carving reliefs of ...