Culturas Mesoamericanas Zapotecas-y-Teotihuacanos | Page 15

I. Olmec Culture The Olmec culture was the first and mother of the Mesoamerican cultures, as we already know is also one of which hold several riddles both of its culture and of its inventions and traditions Something very peculiar about the Olmecs was that the shape of their heads was not something natural, but that they themselves modified it, The deformation in the Olmec skulls was because they thought that while the larger the heads of the people were much more intelligent and still had a standard of beauty greater than the average Olmecs But nobody could afford to deform the cranium only the great Olmec rulers and some high level priests or warriors in conclutons as we can see the olmecs have diferents kinds of beauty 15