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Drums beating music narrator the thousand yearsgo in souern mexico, an unprecedented culture flounearhe gulf coast. Le rivers meandering through the hot, tropical lowlands were the regions lifeblood. Theswaterways for transporon and tra enuraged agriculture. Annual floods left deposits of fertile soil, ideal for growing maize, squash and beans. More than two thousand years later, the aztecs called this region olman, or rubber country, the name of the peoples. Who dwelled there in antiquity is lost, but they have become known as olmec. To express their political and religious beliefs, the ancie...

Some are shown cradling a supernatural infant part human, part jaguar who may have been their link to the spiritual world. Similar figures appear on sculptound at la venta thtirlg me to be altars. But decades later, a clue to their true function was discovered far from the coast, at the mntainous site of oxtotitclan. Its name means place of caves, which ancient mesoamericans regarded as sacred entrances to the underrld, the mythic realm of ancestral and supernatural srits. A rock painting above the cave mouth shows a ruler wearing a bird mask and feathered costume. His elaborate throne depicts...