Zapotec vs Olmec
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Zapotec
The Zapotec refers both to an Indigenous people of southern Mexico and to the pre-Columbian civilization that developed chiefly in the Valley of Oaxaca. Monte Albán became its major political and ceremonial center, while Zapotec inscriptions provide some of the earliest evidence of writing in Mesoamerica. Zapotec communities and Zapotec languages remain present in Oaxaca and elsewhere in Mexico, s...
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Olmec
The Olmec were an ancient Mesoamerican culture centered on the southern Gulf Coast of present-day Mexico, especially the lowlands of Veracruz and Tabasco. Flourishing during the Formative period, roughly 1500 to 400 BCE, they are known archaeologically for ceremonial centers, carved jade and basalt objects, distinctive iconography, and colossal stone heads; the heads' subjects are commonly interpr...
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