Showing posts with label olmec. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olmec. Show all posts

Sunday, July 20, 2008

cabeza colossal


aka Big Head.

Olmec. These guys were kicking around before the Maya came to town.

Can't really tell from the pic, but this guy's head is about 9 feet high.

Museo Nacional de Antropología
Mexico City, MX

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

under our feet


Ninety-five percent of Mexico remains essentially unexplored.

David Grove, a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who has worked in central Mexico for more than 40 years, as reported by National Geographic in Ancient City Found in Mexico; Shows Olmec Influence

And that which has been found is being eaten by acid rain.
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