The Olmec game that invented sudden death - Lafayette Political Buzz

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The Olmec game that invented sudden death - Lafayette Political Buzz
This exhibition is colossal. Literally. The traditional talent of the ancient Olmec people was colossal sculpture carved from volcanic rocks. These have been a popular attraction at the famed Archeological Museum of Mexico City. You can see a great selection at the new Resnick Pavillion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The total population of the Mayan peoples increased to be about 2 million people. As they lived a rural and agricultural life, the Mayans ended up covering most of Guatemala with their population. Their cities were kept mostly in regards to ceremonial practices, leaving them to build centers where they would get their ceremonies and give sacrifices to their gods.

Zero is a placeholder, which means that it truely does work to show that successive numbers are higher - it is indicated that we are now counting in the tens position by the '10' figure, for example.. A higher base of counting was usually denoted historically by the use of a space, however, in messy writing it was impossible to decide if '1 9' was really 19 or 109.. Basic understanding of zero was accomplished by the Babylonians with their use of two small dashes, sometime around 300 BC, but they never took the concept to it's logical conclusions..

Beginning around 2,200 BC, indigenous peoples along the South Atlantic Coast and especially around Sapelo Island, GA began creating massive shell rings, which functioned as villages. The rings were abandoned around 1,600 BC. At this time, there was NO pottery or massive public architecture in Mexico. See

The earliest known pottery was created in what is now eastern Georgia, at least as early as 2500 BC. About two to three centuries later, it appeared in South America. The earliest know planned community with extensive earthworks was at Poverty Point, Louisiana, which began construction around 1600 BC. (See articles on Watsons Brake, Sapelo Island and Poverty Point.) Pottery was being produced in the Southeastern United States and northwestern South America for almost a millennium before it appeared in Mexico.