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Outline • 1)What is the Native People Group?

– Culture– Customs– Agriculture– Religion

• 2) When did they Exist? • 3) When was this famous site created and why?

– La Venta – Tres Zapotes– San Lorenzo

• Architecture• Tourism• Video • Bibliography

How long did it take to complete?

Where is it located in present day now?

Olmec, whose name means "people of the rubber

country" Rubber is a product of the. Also known as Mesoamerica mother.As the first civilization in the area.

Native Group

Culture•They invented a system of Vigesimal numbering.

•His government was theocratic.

• Watching the sky they could establish a schedule with duration of one year, the lunar month, the agricultural cycle and the dates of religious ceremonies were held.

• They were the first to build architectural projects.

Customs• Attire: Men wear loincloths, layers, clay necklaces. The women used a

belt tight skirts, turbans, complicated headgear and masks.• The turbans and headdresses are majestic and were used in

ceremonies, festivals and even sacrifices.

agricultur• The planting system was Tala y Roza it was to use better the fertile

land. • Tala: Cut trees and vegetation.• Roza: burn the ground to leave a layer of nutrients by the crops

harvested after sow.

The land is exhausted after two or three stages, which is abandoned and starts again in another area.

Religion.• Polytheists.• La Venta, and located in Veracruz, San Lorenzo and Tres Zapotes

where they did sacrifices. They believed that life does not end with death.

• The most important deity was represented in agriculture. Life was represented by a jaguar "land" and a snake "water".

• The jaguar god: is the most important god, god of

life, represented by an animal half jaguar, half-serpent.

• Huehueteotl old god, the god of fire.

• Quetzalcoatl: god of rain, weather and corn. It

is represented as a feathered serpent.

Preclásico

• In the early pre-classic period in Mesoamerican cultures were established. The Olmec settlement dating from around 1500 BC , Culture declined around 500 B.C.

archaeological Sites : La Venta, San Lorenzo, Tres Zapotes

• From archaeological evidence it can be inferred that the ceremonial and ritual life among the Olmecs had to be as intense as those of other cultural groups in Mesoamerica consolidated.

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 La Venta: • Ceremonial Olmec Centre.

 • La Venta was inhabited by people of the Olmec Culture from 1200 BC

until 400 BC after which the site appears to have been abandoned. It is believed to have been an important civic and ceremonial centre.

• Today, the entire southern end of the site is covered by a petroleum refinery and has been largely demolished, making further excavations difficult or impossible.

San Lorenzo: • Early Olmec culture had emerged centred around the San Lorenzo

Tenochtitlán site near the coast in southeast Veracruz. They were the first Mesoamerican civilization and laid many of the foundations for the civilizations that followed. Among other "firsts", there is evidence that the Olmec practiced ritual bloodletting and played the Mesoamerican ballgame, hallmarks of nearly all subsequent Mesoamerican societies.

• San Lorenzo is best known today for the colossal Olmec stone heads unearthed there, the greatest of which weighs onwards of 40 tons (3) and is 3 metres high.

Tres Zapotes: 

• (Olmec Capital).

• Located on the slopes of the Tuxtla mountains, this is one of the most important Olmec cities, and the first to be written about in 1868, along with the first reports of colossal heads. Tres Zapotes is sometimes referred to as the third Olmec Capital, as it followed on the demise of both La Venta and San Lorenzo.

• Of particular interest to archaeology is that the site was continuously inhabited for over 2000 years (1)

architecture

• The Olmec architecture is to build platforms around a courtyard, which houses and temples were built

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• Olmec artists distinguished themselves in carving stone.

• Colossal heads carved, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic sculptures, tombs, altars with reliefs and huge tombs, and sculptures that look human.

Ruta Olmeca• It is characterized by the large number of nature that surrounds it, for its

extensive beaches and archeological remains of the Olmec culture ranging from southern Veracruz west of Tabasco.

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Video

• Los Olmecas • Subido por Sagrario y Jesús el 22/06/2008 • Cultura madre

• <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/r7LuFltVhkY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Bibliography

• "Ruta Olmeca Rutas Turà sticas En México." Ruta Olmeca. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2012. <http://www.zonaturistica.com/rutas-turisticas/ruta_olmeca.html%20%20>.

• "Tres Zapotes, Mexico." Tres Zapotes, Mexico. Ed. Alexander Whitaker., N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2012. <http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/mexicotreszapotes.htm>.

• "Los Olmecas Periodo Preclasico." - Ensayos. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2012. <http://www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Los-Olmecas-Periodo-Preclasico/715302.html>.