Epi-Olmec culture

Epi-Olmec culture appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Gulf Coast and Oaxaca (Mesoamerica and Caribbean) from c. 300 BCE to 250 CE, a span of 549 years. Its people spoke Mixe-Zoque languages (Olmec (probable), Epi-Olmec).

Successors of the Olmec in southern Veracruz. The La Mojarra stela and Tuxtla statuette carry Long Count dates of the 100s CE in the Isthmian script, probably an early form of Zoquean.

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Facts

Dates

c. 300 BCE to 250 CE

Duration

549 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Gulf Coast and Oaxaca, Mesoamerica and Caribbean

Language family

Mixe-Zoque

Capital

Tres Zapotes

Came from

• Olmec civilization c. 1600 to 400 BCE

Events in Mesoamerica and Caribbean during its time

• 32 BCE Early Long Count date at Tres Zapotes
• 200 Pyramid of the Sun completed

Neighbours in Mesoamerica and Caribbean

• Teotihuacan c. 100 BCE to 550 CE
• Zapotec state (Monte Albán) c. 500 BCE to 850 CE
• Tikal (Mutal) c. 90 to 900 CE
• El Mirador c. 600 BCE to 150 CE
• Cholula c. 300 BCE to 1519 CE
• Kaminaljuyu c. 800 BCE to 800 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE, North and West Africa
• Moche (Mochica) c. 100 to 800 CE, South America
• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
• Roman Republic 509 to 27 BCE, Europe
• Parthian Empire 247 BCE to 224 CE, Middle East
• Sasanian Empire 224 to 651 CE, Middle East
• Roman Empire 27 BCE to 395 CE, Europe
• Kushan Empire c. 30 to 375 CE, South Asia
• Xiongnu Empire c. 209 BCE to 93 CE, Central and North Asia
• Ptolemaic Kingdom 305 to 30 BCE, North and West Africa

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