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Research Reveals How Olmec Rulers Used Art to Strengthen Political Power

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Research Reveals How Olmec Rulers Used Art to Strengthen Political Power
 

<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:primaryImageOfPage og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Research%20.jpg?itok=rcgcwV3M"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/Research%20.jpg?itok=rcgcwV3M" width="610" height="391" alt="Research Reveals How Olmec Rulers Used Art to Strengthen Political Power" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:description content:encoded"><p>The ancient Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica is known for their huge stone heads and related sculptures depicting human and animal figures, which have been drawing fascinated explorers, archaeologists and tourists to the region for decades. They also produced a lot of carved or painted rock art, and in a new study published in the journal <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/latin-american-antiquity/article/abs/implications-of-rock-art-aesthetics-in-olmec-sculpture/56DAB38DCD95B4FFD85736C8B38CD63C" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Latin American Antiquity[/url], an expert presents evidence of a previously unexplored connection between these two distinctive forms of Olmec artistic expression.</p>
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