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3. Describe the colossal heads that were built by the Olmec and why they were built. (4 points)

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The colossal heads showed a man with indeginous features and some sort of hemlet with a design. It is believed that it was made for some sort of ritual or sport

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The Olmec colossal heads are stone representations of human heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. The heads date from at least 900 BC and are a distinctive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. The boulders were brought from the Sierra de los Tuxtlas mountains of Veracruz.


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