Caption: A map shows the location of Ojo de Agua, an archaeological site in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. A 3,000-year-old Olmec-style carved stone monument, found at the site in 2009, provides information about Olmec culture in the area, including evidence of the early importance of corn. The monument and its archaeological context were described in a December 2010 article by a team of archaeologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brigham Young University, and the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Chiapas, Mexico.
Photo: John Hodgson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: 2010
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Caption: A line drawing of a recently discovered 3,000-year-old Olmec-style stone monument from Ojo de Agua, the site of an early planned settlement in what is now the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. The carved monument provides information about Olmec culture in the area and includes symbols of maize, deities or other important figures, and possible features of the natural world. The monument and its archaeological context were described in a December 2010 article by a team of archaeologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brigham Young University, and the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Chiapas, Mexico.
Photo: Kisslan Chan and John Clark, New World Archaeological Foundation
Date: 2010
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