A picture is worth a thousand words, so here are some images from the Carlos Pellicer Museum, the state of

Tabasco's regional anthropology museum.

Click on any image to get an enlargement so that you can see and appreciate the detail.

As a result of the two major Olmec art and archaeology shows (Princeton and Washington, D.C.) more people want to learn more about Olmec civilization, so we start with some images.

The photographs of the hieroglyphic texts from Nicholas.

Hellmuth (FLAAR PhotoArchive) are in Karl Herbert Mayer's most recent book on Maya sculpture (Johann Loserthgasse 16, A-8010, Graz, Austria), or you can order it through FLAAR

The Instituto de Cultura de Tabasco also maintains the village museum in Balancan, on the shores of the Rio Usumacinta.
Additional museums in Tabasco are at the Maya site of Comalcalco (managed by INAH), at the Olmec site of La Venta (just 2 miles off the main highway, about an hour from Villahermosa), and at Parque La Venta, in the main park of Villahermosa.