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Flourishing of the Olmec Center at La Venta
La Venta, one of the most important Olmec ceremonial centers, reached its peak around 900 BCE, in present-day Tabasco, Mexico, famed for earthen pyra…
Timeline
- c. -1000–-900La Venta · TabascoLa Venta greatly expanded its earthen pyramids and ritual plazas, becoming the political and religious core of the Olmec world, while long-distance jade trade and elite burial practices matured.
- c. -900–-600La Venta · TabascoAround 900 BCE, La Venta produced many colossal stone heads and fine jade objects; frequent sacrificial rites marked the apex of Olmec artistic style and religious symbolism, which radiated outward.
Sources
- La Venta https://www.britannica.com/place/La-Venta
- Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica — Christopher A. Pool (2007)