Epi-Olmec
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Epi-Olmec may refer to:
  • Epi-Olmec culture
    Epi-Olmec culture
    The Epi-Olmec culture was a cultural area in the central region of the present-day Mexican state of Veracruz, concentrated in the Papaloapan River basin, a culture that existed during the Late Formative period, from roughly 300 BCE to roughly 250 CE. Epi-Olmec was a successor culture to the Olmec,...

    , pre-Columbian archaeological culture/area in the coastal Veracruz region of Mexico, ca. 300BCE–250CE
  • Isthmian script
    Isthmian script
    The Isthmian script is a very early Mesoamerican writing system in use in the area of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec from perhaps 500 BCE to 500 CE, although there is disagreement on these dates...

    , also known as Epi-Olmec script, a Mesoamerican writing system

Contrast with

  • Olmec
    Olmec
    The Olmec were the first major Pre-Columbian civilization in Mexico. They lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco....

    , earlier and distinct Mesoamerican archaeological culture and tradition, dating ca. 1200–400 BCE
  • Olmeca-Xicalanca, a Mesoamerican culture living in Mexico's Veracruz and Tabasco regions at the time of the 16thC Spanish conquest
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