determining the role of the Southern area in the trajectory of Maya civilization.

Two "emergents," linguistics and the Olmec

The notion of an aboriginal Maya stimulus - linguistic, cultural, and ethnic strands interweaving together from late in the Paleoindian or Archaic periods - derives primarily from reconstructions of Maya linguistics. Ironically, a non-Maya stimulus also is considered, the Olmec; as at Takalik Abaj, direct Olmec influence seems to have come to Chocolá,

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