Tabasco
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Tabasco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco, is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa.
Comalcalco (archaeological site)
Grijalva River flowing through Villahermosa
View of Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco
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
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…civilization, the first major culture of Mesoamerica. The site shows a number of the characteristics of Olmec culture, including depictions of jaguars, colossal heads and images of figures of rotund children. The site dates back to about 1000 BC and declined around 400 AD, replaced in importance by San Lorenzo. 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