Examples of this civilization's writing have been found in the village of Cascajal outside their earliest known building site, San Lorenzo.
Examples of this civilization's writing have been found in the village of Cascajal outside their earliest known building site, San Lorenzo. Other major cities in its heartland by the Tuxtla mountains are Tres Zapotes and its capital, built on an island in the Tonal‡ River. Much of their art is based on a jaguar god, including much in that capital, La Venta. Some historians have hypothesized that (*) African traders visited this civilization, thus explaining the Negroid facial features of this culture's distinctive giant stone heads. FTP, name this civilization that was succeeded by the Zapotecs and Mayans, among others, after flourishing from 1200 BC to 400 BC, the oldest in Mesoamerica.
Examples of this civilization's writing have been found in the village of Cascajal outside their earliest known building site, San Lorenzo.
the {Olmec} civilization