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Olmec

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Tres Zapotes occupation and monumental stelae (c. 900 BCE–100 CE)

1000 BCE - 2025

The 'Olmec Mother Culture' debate in Mesoamerican scholarship (1940s–present)

1942 - 2025

San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán civic center (c. 1400–900 BCE)

1750 BCE - 1946

Ritual landscape and waterworks at La Venta (mounds, plazas, and offering pits) (c. 900–400 BCE)

900 BCE - 400 BCE

Olmec portable sculpture and figurines: styles and distribution (c. 1500–400 BCE)

400 - 9000

Olmec monumental stoneworks: altars, thrones, and cairns (c. 1400–100 BCE)

32 BCE - 1969

Olmec long‑distance exchange networks across Mesoamerica (c. 1400–400 BCE)

1000 - 9000

Olmec influence on Gulf Coast, Highland, and Pacific cultures (interaction sphere, c. 1200–400 BCE)

400 - 1200

Olmec colossal heads: production, placement, and later discovery (c. 1200–400 BCE)

400 - 1958

Olmec ceramic traditions and pottery sequence (c. 1600–400 BCE)

1750 BCE - 400 BCE

La Venta civic-ceremonial complex (c. 900–400 BCE)

1000 BCE - 2025

Jade and greenstone craft production and trade in Olmec centers (c. 1200–400 BCE)

400 - 1600

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