Some small Olmec terracotta figurines from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most of the figurines have a white slip and have been painted with symbolic and reali
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Olmec figurines (La Venta Offering 4; helmeted heads)

After the burial, someone dug a hole down to the heads of La Venta's 16 buried figures, then refilled it.

Someone dug back down to the figures' heads after the burial. Who would know where to dig, and why check?

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Photo: Madman2001, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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