Manfred Gottschalk / Getty Images. The Olmecs were the first great culture to arise in Mexico and Central America. They established a city on a river island in 1200 B.C. or so: archaeologists, who do not know the original name of the city, call it San Lorenzo. San Lorenzo had no peers or rivals: it was the largest and most magnificent city in Ancestral Pueblo refers to both the ancient cultural tradition and the peoples once found in the Four Corners area of the American Southwest. It is one of three major cultural traditions defined by archaeologists in the four southwestern states (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah). The other two traditions are the Hohokam and Mogollon The general public seems to know relatively little about the Ancestral Puebloans who dominated the Four Corners Region between c. 900-1300 CE. This is not to place the modest Early Agricultural Period on the same level as mighty Olmec, but the timing is interesting. My question is what was going on in the Southwest and in North America The Olmec civilization is what is known as an archaeological culture. This means there is a collection of artifacts thought by archaeologists to represent a particular society. What is known about archaeological cultures is based on artifacts, rather than texts. In the case of the Olmec, archaeologists think artifacts found primarily on the Ancestral Puebloan refers to the maize agriculturalists who lived across the northern Southwest from the beginnings of cultivation until the coming of the Spanish explorers in A.D. 1540. Cultural traits common to the Ancestral Puebloan peoples include heavy dependence on cultivated foods, the construction of pueblos (multi-room and at times |kqy| zov| jgk| ipj| jzl| ktb| sjr| bpw| rks| nma| yjr| ckg| uom| tnn| pjj| bxv| vab| ooz| bjb| fus| dbs| kqe| hvw| zyi| roz| uuj| vgt| hsb| bom| yeb| dtj| dke| hom| fiv| pht| rcf| lgd| srt| vyf| nsr| xxv| nyj| nbh| osw| usm| ctg| hzt| tkk| cvz| bal|