The Old Culture Of Olmecs!!

                                                       CULTURE!!

 The Olmec traded with other people all over South America. Archaeologists find Olmec pottery all over Central America and Mexico, and pottery from other people who lived nearby is also found in Olmec cities. Probably the Olmecs also traded tar, or bitumen - sticky black oily stuff like asphalt that you can use to patch boats and seal up roofs. Some of the trade was probably on boats that travelled up and down the rivers, and some of it was overland, carried by traders walking from city to city.The Olmecs built huge religious stone emblems of their gods and rulers. Some of these emblems were more than nine feet tall, and weighed more than 40 tons. These massive figures were transported miles across the terrain without the use of wheels or the aid of animals.   The Olmecs huge religious stone embl