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Baris 8: Olmec mungkin merupakan Mesoamerika pertama yang memajukan sistem tulisan, tetapi but no examples of it have yet been found. At the present time, there is some debate as to whether or not symbols found in 2002 dated to 650 BC are actually a form of Olmec writing preceding the oldest [[Zapotec]] writing dated to about 500 BC.[http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20021207/fob1.asp] There are other later hieroglyphs known as "[[Epi-Olmec script\| Epi-Olmec]]". "Epi-Olmec" means "post Olmec", and while there are some who believe that Epi-Olmec may represent a transitional script between an earlier, unknown Olmec writing system and Maya writing, the matter is for the time being unsettled. Olmec kemungkinannya pencipta [[permainan bola Mesoamerika]] yang tersebar luas di kalangan budaya-budaya berikutnya di rantau itu dan digunakan untuk tujuan rekreasi dan keagamaan – pastinya mereka telah memainkannya sebelum ada orang yang direkodkan melakukannya. The Olmec were perhaps the originators of the [[Mesoamerican ballgame]] so prevalent among later cultures of the region and used for recreational and religious purposes – certainly they were playing it before anyone else has been documented doing so. [[Image:Olmec Heartland 1.png\|right\|thumb\|300px\|Tanah tengah Olmek]] [[Image:Olmec Heartland 1.png\|right\|thumb\|300px\|Olmec Heartland]]Their religion developed all the important themes (an obsession with mathematics and with calendars, and a spiritual focus on death expressed through human sacrifice) found in successor groups. Finally, their political arrangements of strongly hierarchical city-state kingdoms were repeated by nearly every other Mexican and Central American civilization that followed. Agama mereka memajukan kesemua tema-tema penting (ketaksuban dengan matematik dan dengan takwim, dan fokus kepada kerohanian mengenai kematian yang dinyatakan melalui pengorbanan manusia) yang dijumpai dalam kumpulan berikutnya. Akhirnya, aturan politik mereka berkenaan negara bandar berhierarki diikuti oleh hampir kesemua tamadun orang Mexico dan orang Amerika Tengah yang berikutnya. ==Etimologi==

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