Olmeca

Japanese: Olmeca
Olmeca

...The similarity to the Chavin culture in the Andes of South America is also an issue. The Olmec culture is characterized by clay and stone figurines of infant figures called "baby faces," human figures with jaguar claws, mouths, and eyebrows, megalithic human heads, stone carvings such as stone monuments and altars, jadeite carvings, complexes of buildings such as plazas and pyramid temples surrounding them, and tombs made of basalt columns. This urban culture is also thought to have been centered and born in an inhospitable environment of high temperature and humidity, which would make it an unusual culture in world history.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Olmeca" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…また,南米アンデス地方のチャビン文化との類似性も問題とされている。オルメカOlmeca文化の特徴は,〈ベビー・フェース〉と呼ばれる幼児の姿をもった土偶や石偶,ジャガーの爪・口・眉などの特徴を備えた人物像,巨石人頭像,石碑や祭壇などの石彫,硬玉細工,広場とそれを囲むピラミッド神殿などの建造物複合体,玄武岩の柱を組み合わせた墳墓などが挙げられる。また,この都市的文化は,高温多湿という住みにくい環境に中心をもち,そこに誕生したと考えられるが,そうとすれば世界史上異例の文化と言わねばならない。…

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