Olmec

The Wrestler (El Luchador Olmeca)

Style: Olmec

Technique: Basalt sculpture

Iconography: realistic man who is thought to have been playing the drums. Facial hair, muscle definition, and rotation of the torso.

Jade Kunz

Style: Olmec

Technique: Jade sculpture made with bow drill

Iconography: were-jaguar, whoever held this was ruler

Seated Youth Holding Infant Werejaguar

Style: Olmec

Technique: Jade sculpture

Iconography: Young person holding a Were jaguar like a baby because they are universally important

Colossal Head - San Lorenzo

Style: Olmec

Technique: Basalt scilpture

Iconography: Ruler portrait with ballgame hat

Altar 5 La Ventra

Style: Olmec

Technique: Stone sculpture

Iconography: Throne that Shows a were-jaguar shaman in a cave to the underworld

Potrero Nuevo Altar 2

Style: Olmec

Technique: Stone sculpture

Iconography: Twins representing important religious notion of duality

La Venta 1200 BCE

Style: Olmec

Technique: Stone brick effigy mountain pyramid

SOURH NORTH AXIS

Iconography: 10 stories high, Religious area for precessions

El Rey Stele #1

Style: Olmec

Technique: Stone monument

Iconography: Describes a religious political event with ancestors on top of the two men

El Rey Relief 1 Chalcatzingo

Style: Olmec

Technique: Some relief

Iconography: Depicts religious figure in cave blowing out wing and rain falling on crops

Olmec Ruler Juxtlahuaca

Style: Olmec

Technique: Wall mural

Iconography: Depicts a ruler as a god like human with headress and is the earliest new world portrait.