How To Use Olmec In A Sentence
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While disappointing for epigraphy fans, the find adds 101 characters to the Isthmian syllabary and should represent a step toward retrieving Olmec history.
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To give more attention to "just" aesthetic concerns would be to "endorse precisely the concept of the eighteenth-century curiosity cabinet, in which Assyrian shards, tropical seashells, a piece of Olmec jade, geodes, netsuke, an Attic oil lamp, bird of paradise feathers, and a Maori patu might lay side by side in indifferent splendour.
Philosophy and Literature
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Villagers in the Mexican state of Veracruz discovered the tablet sometime before 1999, while quarrying an ancient Olmec mound for road-building material.
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It is believed that the original game, known as ulama (from the Nahuatl word "olli" meaning rubber), was invented by the Olmecs (the word Olmec is also believed to be derived from the Nahuatl word "olli") around 1500BC.
History of Sport Resulting in Sudden Death Near Puerto Vallarta
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It is believed that the original game, known as ulama (from the Nahuatl word "olli" meaning rubber), was invented by the Olmecs (the word Olmec is also believed to be derived from the Nahuatl word "olli") around 1500BC.
History of Sport Resulting in Sudden Death Near Puerto Vallarta
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It still looked impressive, but the central aisle, with its exhibition of ancient Olmec sculpture, had the air of a glamorous, soaring main concourse of a train station.
Edward Goldman: Three Exhibitions Hardly Acknowledging Each Other
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``'The giant stone heads from the Olmec culture of Mexico show definite features of black Africans,'" said Pitt.
INCA GOLD
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They claim the Olmec left a clue from across the Atlantic long before Columbus.
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Could the Olmec heads depict African visitors from across the Atlantic?
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It documented changes in subsistence patterns and the development of agriculture and village life which underpinned the rise of Olmec, Zapotec, and Maya civilizations.
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Highly developed cultures, including those of the Olmecs, Mayas, Toltecs, and Aztecs existed long before the Spanish conquest.
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Could the Olmec heads depict African visitors from across the Atlantic?
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The central "aisle" is devoted to "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," which in fact features masterworks from roughly 1400 to 400 BC, ranging from the massive stone portrait heads of rulers ...
Peter Clothier: Big Day at LACMA
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Veracruz was the home of the Olmec, which is considered the mother culture of Mexico.
Veracruz: traveling the Central High Plains of Mexico
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Olmec translates as "rubber people" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec).
Museum Blogs
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Not until 1942 was it publicly asserted that the Olmec was the " mother culture " of Mesoamerica i.e., Mexico plus Central America.
Mysteries Carved in Stone
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WITHOUT a word Olmec balled his free hand into a huge fist and stretched the wounded warrior senseless at his feet.
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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The scholars deem that some of the Shang elite and craftsmen may have fled to the New World and that that is the reason of the Olmec's sudden mastery of their skills.
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It was first thought that the Olmecs were monotheistic, but it is now known that they were polytheists.
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Chalcatzingo had many Olmec features in addition to the rock carvings, including crypt burials, human sacrifice, and the use of cultivation terraces.
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While disappointing for epigraphy fans, the find adds 101 characters to the Isthmian syllabary and should represent a step toward retrieving Olmec history.
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Without a word Olmec balled his free hand into a huge fist and stretched the wounded warrior senseless at his feet.
The Conan Chronicles
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The word cocoa comes via the Spanish cacao, which in turn came via the Maya and Aztec from a probable Olmec word kakawa coined 3,000 years ago.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen