Olmec Arts and Crafts Image Gallery



*Olmec artists worked with meticulous technique and a refined sensitivity, whether in the basalt of colossal dimensions or with exquisite jade and serpentine figurines, ceremonial axes and pendents.*
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This stone-work is believed to be one of an Olmec chief.

One great achievement of the Olmec were the building of large stone heads.(Seen in Table of Contents)

The Olmec also made miniature stone figures.

Olmec meeting stone figure scene.(Right)

Olmec pot | Another pot

An artist's rendition of the were-jaguar