Research has concentrated primarily on the centers of San Lorenzo and La Venta, and very little is known about Laguna de los Cerros, or smaller Olmec centers, or Olmec life in small farming hamlets.

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Many Olmec activities of daily life had to do with religion. An important Olmec god was the rain god. The rain god was drawn as a jaguar. The jaguar image was often included in Olmec art.

The Olmec World exhibition commences with several near life-size hollow ceramic babies. Olmec is the only ancient civilization which celebrates, in a monumental and masterful way, the human baby.

The Olmec were an ancient Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco. The Olmec flourished during Mesoamerica's Formative period, dating roughly from 1400 BCE to about...

Early Olmec figurines depict wearing the same type of padded belts and padded arm and leg bands.

A large collection of articles and resources on Mesoamerica and its cultures, primarily Maya, Aztec and Olmec, maintained by Joel Skidmore. Includes an illustrated encyclopedia of Mesoamerica.

Codex Mendoza features a remarkable series of illustrations that idealize the Aztec life cycle.

This review is from: Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth (The Daily Life Through History Series) (Paperback)