Olmec translates as "rubber people" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec).    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

WITHOUT a word Olmec balled his free hand into a huge fist and stretched the wounded warrior senseless at his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conquering Sword of Conan]

Veracruz was the home of the Olmec, which is considered the mother culture of Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Veracruz: traveling the Central High Plains of Mexico] Reference

These people think the Olmec are the most evil thing they've got to worry about, but they're wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Trial]

Not until 1942 was it publicly asserted that the Olmec was the " mother culture " of Mesoamerica i.e., Mexico plus Central America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysteries Carved in Stone] Reference

Indeed, we do not consider the site “Olmec” at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference

The most important Early Olmec period site is San Lorenzo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Americas' First Colony?] Reference

Symbols on this Olmec seal are similar to later Mayan glyphs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earliest Mesoamerican Writing?] Reference

But, why does the Archaeology e-Update refer this as an Olmec site?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference

"Perhaps the Olmec are not the dunderheads you assumed them to be,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Trial]

Check this space for a review of pre-Olmec Yoo Hoo sometime next year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yoo Hoo's Earliest Ancestor] Reference

The earliest record of using chocolate dates back before the Olmec.    From Wordnik.com.  [How chocolate is used for healing in the past and present] Reference

Just how much the New Agers in Villahermosa knew about the Olmec is unclear.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Agers, Slime and Olmec Heads] Reference

There has been some suggestion that the Olmec had contacts with South America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Tiwanaku - Q&A] Reference

Biscotti, shaped like Olmec statues, came with a dark chocolate sauce for dipping.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Red-Checked Tablecloths: A True Tuscan on East 55th] Reference

Olmec society was a manifestation of a much more complex social and political order.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Mesoamerican Civilizations] Reference

These include everything from Olmec masks to Mayan urns to Native American textiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xanadu, Sacramento and Beyond] Reference

Either way, the sherds indicate some kind of long-distance connection with the Olmec.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Honduran Village Life] Reference

Is there any connection between the Tiwanaku culture and the Olmec of Central America?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Tiwanaku - Q&A] Reference

When in comes to Olmec contact with the Inka Empire, the timing doesn't really work out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Tiwanaku - Q&A] Reference

In fact, there is little concrete evidence of Olmec contact further south than Costa Rica.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Tiwanaku - Q&A] Reference

You can see it in their Mayan cheekbones and stolid Olmec physiques and almond Aztec eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Hendra: Immigrants? It's Their Country] Reference

Pottery with Olmec motifs found at Puerto Escondido and dating to between 1100 and 900 B.C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yoo Hoo's Earliest Ancestor] Reference

"The main thing we need for advancing the decipherment of epi-Olmec script is more text data.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Epi-Olmec Decipherment] Reference

Mesoamericanists have not agreed about the relationship between Guerrero and the Olmec heartland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emerald Man] Reference

In Mesoamerica, the Olmec development has raised many questions, a lot of which remain unanswered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference

Sorry about that, I made a leap because the site has some Olmec materials, but you are quite right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analysis Begins « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference

"Local elites may have used Olmec symbolism on their own pottery to signify their status," says Joyce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Honduran Village Life] Reference

However I agree with Travis D., this site does not appear to be Olmec, at least to me, in any significant way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analysis Begins « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference

The students and faculty at the University of Veracruz are doing excellent work, and they do not refer to the site as Olmec.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference

We have to acknowledge that the exporters (the Olmec) and the receivers may have had very different interests in the system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olmec People, Olmec Art] Reference

The means and reasons for the movement of Olmec-style objects, and what motivated the local copying of them, are not certain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olmec People, Olmec Art] Reference

The Olmec mis-identification was by me in the Archaeology e-Update newsletter that we use to announce new content on the website.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Analysis Begins « Interactive Dig El Carrizal – Rescuing a Mesoamerican Site] Reference

The art and archaeology of the Maya and Olmec cultures and the Teotihuacan cultural complex are covered by www. maya-archaeology.org.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multimedia: Web Links to the Past] Reference

The scholarly consensus, however, is that those parallels were not the product of direct contact between the Olmec society and Chavin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Tiwanaku - Q&A] Reference

They stated that in claiming African origins for prehistoric Olmec culture (in present-day Mexico), Van Sertima had ignored the work of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbus' 'discovery' of America: the greatest hoax of all times?] Reference

In exchange for Olmec pots, they may have been exporting highly prized cacao beans, for which the area was known in the sixteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Honduran Village Life] Reference