Site of the Day: La Venta (Mexico)

La Venta is an important Olmec civilization site located near the town of Huimanguillo in Tabasco state, Mexico. The site was large, up to 200 hectares in area, and was a village of wattle and daub structures built on adobe mud brick foundation platforms. Public architecture--that's the word archaeologists use to mean structures built for public purposes--at La Venta includes this snazzy abstract mosaic.

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• La Venta
• Olmec Civilization
• Public architecture
• Archaeology of Mexico