Distinctive features associated with what we call …
Years: 1485BCE - 1342BCE
Distinctive features associated with what we call the Olmec culture first appear within the city of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán around 1400 BCE.
The rise of civilization here is assisted by the local ecology of well-watered alluvial soil, as well as by the transportation network that the Coatzacoalcos River basin provides.
