Their hieroglyphic writing system resembles that of the Vai people of West Africa, while scholars believe their language was of the Mixi-Zoquean family.
Their hieroglyphic writing system resembles that of the Vai people of West Africa, while scholars believe their language was of the Mixi-Zoquean family. Though later civilizations called them "Tamoanchan", researcher Marshall Seville adopted a name meaning "rubber people" in Nahuatl. Many of the relics of this culture were stone sculptures depicting squat helmet-headed people, with such monuments found at cultural sites like La Mojarra, La Venta and San Lorenzo. FTP, identify this Mesoamerican culture that dissipated in 400 BCE, pre-dating the Mayans and Aztecs.
Their hieroglyphic writing system resembles that of the Vai people of West Africa, while scholars believe their language was of the Mixi-Zoquean family.
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