Olmec's

By jholtry25
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE

    weights and dates

    Dating the monuments is difficult because they don’t have a date on them. Most have been dated to the Early 1500–1000 BC with some to 1000–400 BC. The smallest weigh 6 tons and the largest is about 40 to 50 tons.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE

    Begining of the olmec's

    The confusing Olmec civilization located in older Mexico from 1200 BCE to 400 BCE is about the time that the Olmec people began.
  • 900 BCE

    Olmec sites

    Olmec sites
    San Lorenzo is supposedly the oldest Olmec centre. While digging people have found Olmec sites (San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán La Venta)
    that date back to 1150 BCE and to have been destroyed perhaps by intruders around 900 BCE.
  • 900 BCE

    face less monuments

    face less monuments
    In 900 BCE the centre of San Lorenzo is destroyed and monuments are have no face, and La Venta became the Olmec capital.
  • 900 BCE

    collossal dates

    collossal dates
    The colossal heads date from 900 BC and olde. These are a distinctive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica because they are the only ones who did that.
  • 400 BCE

    The end of the Olmec's

    The end of the Olmec's
    Around 400 B.C. the Olmec city La Venta the civilization died out two thousand years before the arrival of the first Europeans. No one is absolutely certain which factors led to its downfall.

  • Monument 4

    Monument 4
    A replica of San Lorenzo Head monument 4 sculpted by Ignacio Perez Solano was placed near the Constitution Avenue entrance of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in October 2001.

  • colossal heads

    colossal heads
    In February 2010, the Mexican Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores announced that the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia would be donating a replica Olmec colossal head to Ethiopia.

  • making a replica

    making a replica
    In November 2017, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto donated a full-size replica of San Lorenzo Head 8th monument to the people of Belize. It was put in Belmopan at the roundabout of Mexico.

  • finding monuments

    finding monuments
    If you were to try and find these colossal heads right now in 2019 these are the places you should. One place you can is veracruz to see monument 1