Lenguaje y escritura

Entre otras cosas, desarrollaron el calendario y la epigrafía.

La escritura olmeca en la más antigua de América

Arte olmeca

Los más importantes y conocidos son las Cabezas colosales olmecas que son
un ejemplo de escultura monumental y una de sus mejores representaciones
artísticas.
Una característica llamativa de estas cabezas colosales es la marcada
apariencia negroide.

Economía

Principalmente fue el cultivo del maíz, además del frijol, calabaza, cacao, etc.
Además de que estos formaban parte de su dieta y se incluían la carne de
pescado, tortugas, venados y perros domesticados. El comercio se basó en
lugares apartados como guerrero, el valle de México, Oaxaca y la zona Maya.
Language and writing

Among other things, the Olmecs are credited with the development of the
calendar, epigraphy and epigraphy. Prior to the 2002 discoveries, the main
corpus of long inscriptions consisted of a dozen epigraphic inscriptions, all dated
between 300 BC. C. and 530 d. C. In 2002, an inscription dating from 650 BC
was discovered, and in 2007, another from 900 a.c, which exceeds Zapotec
writing in antiquity and makes the Olmec script the oldest in America.

Olmec art

Olmec art was very complex and there are many objects that are still being
investigated. The most important and known are the Olmec Colossal Heads that
are an example of monumental sculpture and one of its best artistic
representations. It is believed to represent warriors or chiefs. There are 17
known, most of them distributed between the Museum of Anthropology of Xalapa
and the Museum Park La Venta. A striking feature of these colossal heads is the
marked negroid appearance, which has led to different conjectures. It is believed
that they could represent heads of their gods.

Economy Mainly

Was the cultivation of corn, in addition to beans, squash, cocoa, etc. In addition
to these were part of their diet and included fish meat, turtles, deer and
domesticated dogs. The trade was based on isolated places such as Guerrero,
the Valley of Mexico, Oaxaca and the Mayan zone. The Olmecs brought and
brought different merchandise to exchange with the other Mesoamerican groups,
among them the rubber from Tabasco and Veracruz. The good harvests that they
obtained in the margins of the rivers; they also practiced hunting, fishing and
gathering. Therefore we can deduce that the Olmecs were a civilization that
survived thanks to agriculture as a very important economy base.