Early Mesoamerican archaeology attributes the sudden emergence of monumental basalt carving to the Olmec civilization around 1400 BC. Advanced twenty-ton stone heads and complex transport from ...

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In the late 1850s, a farm worker in southern Veracruz, Mexico, was clearing woodland to make way for a cornfield. As he hacked his way through branches and shrubs, he came across a large stone ...