Olmec heartland Olmec Metropolitan Zone. The major heartland sites are: Smaller sites include: Important heartland finds not associated with any archaeological site include: Olmec heartland The Olmec heartland is the southern portion of Mexico's Gulf Coast region between the Tuxtla mountains and the Olmec archaeological site of La Venta, extending roughly 80 km (50 mi) inland from the Gulf of Mexico coastline at its deepest. It is today, as it was during the height of the Olmec civilization, a tropical lowland forest environment, crossed by meandering rivers. Most researchers consider the Olmec heartland to be the home of the Olmec culture which
Civilisations (TV series) of the BBC "Civilisations AR" augmented-reality app on both iOS and Android. Released as Civilizations by PBS in the United States, the individual programs have distinct treatments and narrative arc, with Liev Schreiber as the series narrator. While maintaining the principal contributions of Simon Schama, Mary Beard, and David Olusoga, joining them are international artists and experts including religious studies scholar Jamal J. Elias, INAH anthropologist Rebecca Gonzalez-Lauck, art critic Jonathan Jones, Egyptology professor Salima Ikram, Asian Art Museum director Jay Xu, and history professor Maya Jasanoff. Civilisations (TV series) Civilisations is a 2018 British art history television documentary series