Mesoamerica
Big heads like shown to the right were rocks made from basalt showing the rulers heads. These big heads were only seen in the Olmec civilization. The largest sculpture required about a thousand laborers. The Olmecs didn't just build big heads they also build temples, pyramids, altars, stone sculptures, and tombs for the rulers.
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http://blogs.uww.edu/pastpresent/files/2009/01/colossolhead.jpg
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Palenque_glyphs-edit1.jpg
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The picture shown to the left shows Mayan writing. This writing shows ideographic and symbols for syllables. This writing was used when writing poems, myth, and was also used to keep astronomical records. You can see this writing on temples and monuments. Another achievement was the Mayan calender shown in the slideshow below. It had 2 kinds of years, a ritual year(260 days) and a solar year (365 days).
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