Olmec mask (Olmec-style mask)

Olmec mask (Olmec-style mask), c. 1200 - 400 B.C.E., jadeite, 4 x 3-3/8 x 1-1/4 inches found in offering 20 buried c. 1470 C.E. at the Aztec Templo Mayor (Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City)
Speakers: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker
Items buried in offerings included ceramic vessels, stone sculptures, obsidian blades, seashells, greenstone, and objects gathered from earlier locales (like Olmec sites and the city of Teotihuacan). The Olmecs are known as “rubber people,” a name given to the peoples of the Gulf Coast after the Spanish Conquest. We don’t know what they called themselves. Jadeite was quarried in the Sierra de las Minas in Guatemala, and was imported to the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Items acquired via trade or tribute [by the Aztecs] included feathers, obsidian, jadeite, cotton, cacao, and turquoise.

[@m3rch549]

I Reject My Humanity, JoJo!!!!

[@cocopuffs8646]

But isn’t being a vampire come with a lot of side effects?

[@seanp.3091]

I don't know why this is on a smarthistory video for AP Art History but it's really funny to see this here.

[@itsprofessorcreeper2839]

I knew someone would comment this

[@adantito5703]

Proud to be a Central American. Love my Olmec ancestors

[@alexcholagh8330]

There's over 150 native groups besides the quecha Mayan Aztecs zaptocs mixtecs chiba. Many of these groups are Endangered due to culture destruction switching to Spanish deforestation and language local tribal wars and other forms of culture abandonment and destruction. The olmecs have left behind a legacy but it's unknown who are there decendants or if there ghost population meaning they mixed with other people or got absorbed by there neighbors

[@fromsoutherncalifas8138]

The Olmecs were from Mexico not Central America 😂

[@quieteron1516]

Olmec were in modern day Mexico not Central America anything south of Guatemala didn’t really have much civilization

[@JohnDoe-rk7ej]

@@quieteron1516 Peru is south of Guatemala so is the Incas also Brazilian indigenous

[@FlyingDutchGirl1998]

@@quieteron1516 Olmec masks, heads, mini-statues and other artifacts have been found as far south as Nicaragua. So no, Mexicans are not the only rightful claimants of Olmec heritage the Guatemalans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans also have Olmec heritage.

[@Elsanta666]

I wish there was an expedition to my town in veracruz, im from olmec decent and in my town there are atleast 10 piramids covered by nature.

[@theuberman7170]

Let a university or the government know. I have heard alot of people say similar things.

[@Ivan-Manzo]

Please tell inah about this if you suspect they don't know about the site already, I know they have their flaws but they're still the best organization to recover and preserve our culturañ heritage in mexico.

[@bluresponse]

rwally? stfu pendejo they will pillage those sites. Don't be stupld

[@EB-jp8jk]

Same here from where el tajin is at.

[@FlyingDutchGirl1998]

Y-DNA tests (passed down from father-to-son) also proved the Olmecs were pure Native American not African. Don’t let the Africans steal your heritage, Olmecs masks, heads, mini-statues etc have been found as far south as Nicaragua. Olmecs, the ancestors of Mexicans, Guatemalans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans, God bless y’all 🙏🏻

[@supremereader7614]

Very beautiful. I'd like to see more art from this culture.

[@Sasha0927]

I so want to look through those offerings and see what's to be seen. It's strange, I'm highly organized, but there's something about a messy bunch of knick-knacks that I can't resist. I can resist this mask, though. 😬 Not the most pleasant thing to look at.. I loved the pebble background behind the Teotihuacan mask.. Another thing I wouldn't mind digging through or partially burying myself in. I need to get back to the beach is what this video has ultimately taught me, lol.

[@zsunlight]

So glad to see that you have broadened your teaching scope to include social studies. I have retired from teaching World History but I still teach! Thank you! Love your work!

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, ya'll people have great voices ! 😊😊😊😊

[@Yoditah]

very interesting

[@alexandercoovert2201]

Awesome!

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

Dude,this is cool 😊😊😊😊

[@joshdeb]

Love this stuff ...starting a new passion

[@robertluark4508]

Nice work

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, this is cool

[@pyewackett5]

The rubber people !

[@Boricua-h9n]

They look asian

[@MultiDaron]

And she sticks the landing. 9.5