High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! El Manati is an archaeological site located approximately 60 km south of Coatzacoalcos, in the municipality of Hidalgotitlan 27 kilometers southeast of Minatitlan in the Mexican state of Veracruz. El Manati was the site of a sacred Olmec sacrificial bog from roughly 1600 BCE until 1200 BCE. It is likely that this site was used for ritual ceremonies which included offerings of wooden sculptures, rubber balls, ceremonial axes, and other items including the bones of infants — all found in an excellent state of preservation in the muck. Most of the wooden sculptures are busts created in the "elongated man" style and are the oldest wooden artifacts yet found in Mexico. The rubber balls are also the earliest such items yet discovered and were possibly used in the Mesoamerican ballgame. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в...

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