between the States of Tabasco and Veracruz; but indisputably, they were present in all cultures, in a phase that we shall call "olmecoid, or with an Olmec influence. In small villages all that vast and immeasurable knowledge about the universe, nature, life, death, and man before the divine and the sacred begun to be expressed.
In the approximately 4,500 years of endogenous Cultural development, from the onset of agriculture, until the formation of the Olmec culture, the Old Grandparents invented, discovered, produced, processed and systematized all that wisdom which appeared approximately 1500 years prior to the beginning of the splendor or flourishing of ancient Mexico, in the Classic period.
Foreign researchers have tried to erase these priceless 4,500 years from our ancient history by belittling it. Indeed, from the first agricultural practices until the emergence of the Mother Culture, they are barely given importance in research texts and are almost non-existent in the "official story" that is recorded from the first appearance of the Olmec culture. But the Olmecs were not created by "spontaneous generation". There were four thousand five hundred years of intense research and systematization of human life experience.
The corn invention.
The corn invention,[1] is perhaps, one of the greatest achievements of the preclassical or formative period, since from a wild grass, our Old Grandparents produced the splendid maize plant, which became the staple food of their civilization. It is important to stress that no other
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- ↑ Maize (Zea mays L. ssp. mays, pronounced /ˈmeɪz/), known in many English-speaking countries as corn, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. It is an annual grain-bearing plant related to grass. This plant has been greatly transformed from a grass called teozintle. This transformation has yielded a gamut of species which differ in size, which varies from two to four meters in height; in the shape and size of the cob, its color and texture etc. There is conclusive evidence from archaeological finds and Paleo-botanic studies that, in the Valley of Tehuacán, to the South of Mexico, corn was already being cultivated approximately 4,600 years ago.
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