Question

What does this image suggest about the relationship between the ancient Olmec and Mayan cultures?

These two contemporary cultures likely influenced each other and traded cultural elements.

The glyphs are evidence that the Olmec had little influence on the culture of the Mayans.

The image demonstrates that the Olmecs were likely a "mother culture" or “sister culture” to the Maya.

The two cultures adopted a similar form of writing from a third culture.

Answer 1

@phi

Answer 2

@thomaster

Answer 3

@Nurali

Answer 4

@jdoe0001

Answer 5

anyone? :/

Answer 6

Excavations at San Andrés in 1997 and 1998 produced three artifacts that many archaeologists contend demonstrate that the Olmec civilization used a true writing system. These artifacts, dated roughly to 650 BCE (the middle of the Olmec concentration at La Venta and San Andres), were found in a refuse dump, the remains from a festival or feast. “The fact that the artifacts with glyphs were found in the context of feasting refuse suggest that writing among the Olmec was sacred and was closely tied to ritual activities.” [15]
The most important find was a fist-sized ceramic cylinder seal, likely used to print cloth. When rolled out, the seal shows two speech scrolls emanating from a bird, followed directly by a number of design elements enframing what has been interpreted as logograms for “king (sideways U shape),” "3 (three dots, according to the Mesoamerican bar and dots numbering system),” and “Ajaw (from the sacred 260-day calendar)", a designation used for both a calendar date and, in keeping with Mesoamerican custom, the name of an Olmec ruler. In addition to the ceramic cylinder seal, two fingernail-sized fragments from a greenstone plaque have been recovered, each containing an incised glyph. Both these glyphs have been linked to well-documented glyphs in other Mesoamerican writing systems, including the Isthmian and Maya scripts. [16]
Well-known archaeologist and writer Michael D. Coe interprets these glyphs as "an early kind of writing" [17] while Richard A. Diehl, who excavated at the Olmec site of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan with Coe, finds that this discovery "establishes the existence of Olmec writing and calendrics by 650 B.C.E" [18] On the other hand, Mayanist epigrapher David Stuart stated that it would be hard to discern evidence of a writing system in a handful of symbols. [19] ... dont know if this answers your question ? but got it from wiki.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andr%C3%A9s_(Mesoamerican_site)

Answer 8

so wtf is the answer