Excavations at LaVenta Movie Review 1963

A classic study of the large-scale excavation in 1955 of the Olmec site at La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico, which helped substantiate the theory that high civilization in Mesoamerica made its earliest appearance in the lowland Gulf Coast region.

Distribution

University of California Extension Ctr. for Media & Independent Learning, 2000 Center St., 4th Fl., Berkeley, CA 94704, Phone: (510)642-0460, Fax: (510)643-9271, Email: mediaservices@ucxonline.berkeley.edu

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Running time 29 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Archaeology

Producer

Robert Heizer