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Mexico - Xalapa Museum - The Olmecs: the mother civilisation of Mesoamerica

The Olmecs were the first of the great civilisations of Mesoamerica. Their name comes from "olmeca", which means "the people of the land of rubber" in the Nahuatl language. (In the 16th century, "olman" referred to the coast of the Gulf,...

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