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    Some of the artifacts have been moved to the museum "Parque - Museo de La Venta", which is in nearby Villahermosa, the capital of Tabasco. The Olmec...
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    of Tres Zapotes Monument A. The head has been moved to the Museo del Estado de Tabasco in Villahermosa. La Venta Monument 3 stands 1.98 metres (6.5 ft)...
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    The Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, known simply as Las Ventas [laz ˈβentas], is the largest bullfighting ring in Spain, located in the Guindalera quarter...
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    Zone. The major heartland sites are: San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán La Venta Tres Zapotes Laguna de los Cerros - the least researched and least important of the...
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    Olmecs (section La Venta)
    900 BCE at about the same time that La Venta rose to prominence. Widespread destruction of many San Lorenzo monuments also occurred around the 950s BCE...
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    to as the third major Olmec capital (after San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán and La Venta), but the Olmec phase is only a portion of the site's history, which continued...
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    Venta de Baños is a small town and municipality of about 6,400 inhabitants located in the Cerrato district of the province of Palencia, part of the autonomous...
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    drawing). Lively werejaguar babies are depicted in bas-relief on the sides of La Venta Altar 5 (see photo below). According to archaeologist Peter Furst, werejaguar...
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    Las Limas Monument 1, also known as the Las Limas figure or the Señor de las Limas, is a 55 centimetres (22 in) greenstone figure of a youth holding a...
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  • Tenochtitlán (1938), La Venta (1939–40) and Cerro de las Mesas (1940–41). In 1941, Stirling unearthed a large carved stone monument in Izapa, which he labeled...
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