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La Venta
Under La Venta lie 28 layers of hauled stone, just over 1,000 tons, buried beneath a jaguar mask.
Chronologically, the history of the Olmecs can be divided into the Early Formative…
Why bury a thousand tons of finished stone where no one would see it?
Photo: Alfonsobouchot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons