Izapa: Cultural Hearth of the Olmecs?
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Located near the edge of the Pacific coastal plain in the far southeastern corner of Chiapas, Mexico, is the large pre-Columbian ceremonial center known as Izapa. Situated on the terrace of a small stream tributary to the Rio Suchiate, the border river between Mexico and Guatemala, the site consists of more than 130 mounds sprawled over several hectares of lush tropical lowland at the base of the volcano Tacaná, the second highest mountain (4,094 meters) in Central America. Although scarcely half a dozen of Izapa's cobble-studded mounds and pyramids have been restored to date, it is clear that they once formed part of an elaborate, well-planned complex of considerable magnitude and importance. Just how important this complex may be is only now emerging.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003