Subject: noble warrior
Culture: Olmec
Setting: 15th-5thc BC
* University of Texas at Austin > Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
"Replica of San Lorenzo Monument #1
Weighing 18 tons, this is an exact copy of the colossal head that was first discovered at the Olmec site of San Lorenzo, Veracruz. The original is now housed at the Museum of Anthropology in Xalapa, Veracruz. San Lorenzo Monument #1 is a landmark work of art of the Olmec, an ancient Mesoamerican culture that flourished in southern Mexico 1500-400 BCE." ...
* National Museum of Natural History
