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The Olmec

Images from In the Land of the Olmec, Coe & Diehl, University of Texas
Press, Austin. Photograph, above left, by José Luis Hernández.

Felipe Dávalos (on left, above) studies the colossal heads at the
Olmec site of San Lorenzo in 1967. Taking careful measurements and
notes of each detail, Dávalos drew every monument from four sides
(above, right). Most scholars believe the sculptures are portraits of
important rulers of Mesoamerica's first civilization.

Great rivers helped move multiton blocks from the Los Tuxtlas
Mountains near the Gulf of Mexico to the swampy plains where they are
found today. In Dávalos's re-creation, workers transport a ruler's
monuments to La Venta. Such hefty blocks were likely moved on sledges
to riverbanks and rafted downstream along the seacoast, and then
upriver.