Mexican Pre-Hispanic Sites Image Gallery
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Identifier
022
Medium
Photograph
Date Created
10-1976
Country
Mexico
State
Tabasco
Cultures
Olmec Civilization
Periods
Middle Formative Period
Keywords
La Venta Site (Mexico)--Antiquities; Olmec sculpture; Olmec art;
Description
Alt Text: Large carved stone humanoid head. Description: La Venta, Monument 1, Colossal Head.
Copyright
©1976 Carl L. Thurman
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Type
Image
File Format
image/tiff
Recommended Citation
Thuman, Carl L., "La Venta, Monument [photo 07]" (1976). Mexican Pre-Hispanic Sites Image Gallery. 22.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/mayan/22
Keywords
La Venta Site (Mexico)--Antiquities; Olmec sculpture; Olmec art;
Comments
La Venta is a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Olmec civilization located in the Mexican state of Tabasco. Some of the artifacts have been moved to the museum "Parque - Museo de La Venta", which is in nearby Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco.