La Venta
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La Venta is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Olmec civilization located in the present-day Mexican state of Tabasco. Some of the artifacts have been moved to the museum Parque-Meseo La Venta
La Venta pyramid
"The Grandmother", La Venta (reproduction). Officially known as Monument 5, this statue is thought to represent a kneeling "baby-face" figure.
Complex C, The Great Pyramid.
Complex A.
Olmec colossal heads
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The Olmec colossal heads are stone representations of heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. They range in height from 1.17 to 3.4 metres. The heads date from at least 900 BCE and are a distinctiv
La Venta
…communications through the interaction of architecture and sculpture". Certainly the most famous of the La Venta monumental artifacts are the four colossal heads. Seventeen colossal heads have been unearthed in the Olmec area, four of them at La Venta, officially named Monuments 1 through 4. Three of the…
San Lorenzo Colossal Head 4, now at the Xalapa Museum of Anthropology
La Venta Monument 1, c. 1960
"Olmec-style" face mask in jade
Pottery Olmec figurine of an "infantile figure", a common and distinct Olmec type