Olmecs

Mesoamerican civilization

9 dated entries naming Olmecs, drawn from 7 separate years between 1600 BCE and 400 BCE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century BC

1600 BCEc. 1600 BC—The foundations of the Olmec civilization in southern Mexico.source

12th century BC

1200 BCEc. 1200 BC: Olmec culture starts and thrives in Mesoamerica.source

9th century BC

900 BCEc. 900 BC — San Lorenzo, the center of early Olmec culture, is destroyed, probably by migrating peoples from the north, and power passes to La Venta in Tabasco.source
900 BCEc. 900 BC – 600 BC — Great Pyramid and ball court, La Venta, Mexico, is built. Olmec culture.source

8th century BC

713 BCE713 BC—Olmecs establish Monte Albán, the sacred city, and continue building pyramids.source

6th century BC

600 BCEThe calendrical system begins appearing in areas with strong Olmec influence, continuing to appear until 500 BC (approximate date).source

5th century BC

500 BCEThe Olmec established Monte Albán, the sacred city, and continued building pyramids. Founded toward the end of the Middle Formative period at around 500 BCE, by the Terminal Formative (ca.100 BCE–CE 200) Monte Albán soon became the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacts with other Mesoamerican regional states, such as Teotihuacan to the north (Paddock 1983; Marcus 1983).source
500 BCEMesoamerican calendars are developed by the Olmec civilisationsource

4th century BC

400 BCEThe Olmec culture in Mesoamerica comes to an end as its city of La Venta is abandoned (approximate date).source