Olmec Influences On Mesoamerican Cultures - Olmec Heartland

Olmec Heartland

Nearly all researchers agree on a number of specific issues concerning the Olmec and the Olmec Heartland:

• The forebears of the Olmecs were indigenous to the Olmec heartland, and developed their civilization independent of other civilizations.
• The Olmec civilization arose in the Olmec heartland with the flowering of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán in the centuries before 1200 BCE.