Andrew Schulz

And this is America's first civilization.

The Olmecs.

Yeah.

And so the Olmecs rise and fall in... Before...

before anything else is really going on.

So they rise and they fall.

And then about the time they fall is when the Maya start taking off and then the Zapotec start taking off.

Um, so, um, Oh yeah.

So that's, uh, that's Matthew Sterling next to, uh,

next to the main head at La Venta.

You see all those markings on the top of his head?

So my thought is they would push that head down into the ground and carve up the top of it and maybe leave it exposed as a statement that the were-jaguars had taken over.

But later on in Olmec civilization, like their last capital city of Tres Potes, the were-jaguars gone.

So the Olmec heads, the kingdom or whatever it is, the non-were-jaguar class wins out.

They expelled the were-jaguar people.

They ultimately win.

And then so what's crazy about the Olmecs is they are just like the Minoans, which is probably why I'm interested in the Minoans.

They are the most powerful civilization of their region.

They rise and fall before really anything else is going on.

And we don't know their name.