Olmec architecture
Olmec architecture. Meso-American architecture, of which La Venta, a ceremonial centre situated on an island in the Tonalà River Delta, provides examples (c. early C8). Important buildings were laid formally out on axes.
Bibliography
Cruickshank (ed.) (1996);
Kubler (1984)
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