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The Tree of Life as described by the ancient cultures of Egypt, Harrapan (Indus valley), Olmec, Maya, the Mimbres of the Southwest USA, and an Aboriginal Australian pictograph. All the depicted gesture signs used by these cultures are the same.
Introduction Most archaeologists and prehistorians recognize the term Olmec as referring to the earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica, centered in the tropical lowlands of Mexico's Gulf coast (FIG. 1).1 But this recognition has been won only recently, for a few decades ago Mesoam- erican scholars were hotly debating the chronological placem...
A fruitless attemptwas to rename the culture in order to distinguish from the ancient archaeological as the basic theme, humans the historie Olmec culture. Miguel Covarrubias provided the first broad consideration impact on later Mesoamerican made of the art style and its iconography.
Here we trace the emergence of core Mesoamerican social structure and cultural traits and examine the role of the Olmec in shaping their development. We focus on the Olmec sites of the Mexican Gulf Coast region.
Olmec rulers expressed their material and religious power in the first monumental stone art of Mesoamerica, remarkable for its sophistication and naturalism, as well as through massive buried offerings of wealth obtained from great distances.
Olmec Religion and Art Religion was very important to the Olmecs. We know this because the most important buildings in their cities were temples to honor their gods and palaces for their rulers. Art also was important to the Olmecs, especially sculpture and carving. The best-known examples of Olmec art are huge stone sculptures
Olmec figures. In the ancient discipline ofHathaYoga, this positionis alsoa fundamentalposture. Itis called Tadasana,themountainpose. Briefly, onestands with feet hip-widthapart and weight perfectly balanced from right to left and front to back. Starting with the feet, the body is firmed, bal anced and lifted, withthe vertebrae consciously
