The Olmec World, the first major exhibition of Olmec art and the first important catalogue to concentrate on this seminal civilization.

OLMEC CIVILIZATION: 1200BC- 600AD The Olmecs were a culture of ancient peoples -1300-400 B.C. - of the East Mexico lowlands. They are often regarded as the Mother Culture of later Middle American civilizations. The Olmec people called themselves Xi (pronounced Shi). Olmecs had colossal heads some of which were deformed. Portrait of a man with said deformation. This life-sized greenstone head was ...

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