Although they lacked writing, this culture left behind many large sculpted basalt heads featuring flat faces, thick lips and domed helmets that may have represented athletes from their rubber-ball games.
Although they lacked writing, this culture left behind many large sculpted basalt heads featuring flat faces, thick lips and domed helmets that may have represented athletes from their rubber-ball games. Their mosaics and other art have been found at the cultural centers of San Lorenzo and La Venta, and they worshipped a pantheon of were-jaguar deities. Thriving between 1200 and 800 BC in what is now Tabasco and Veracruz, FTP, what was this first sophisticated Mesoamerican culture?
Although they lacked writing, this culture left behind many large sculpted basalt heads featuring flat faces, thick lips and domed helmets that may have represented athletes from their rubber-ball games.
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