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| Preface | |
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| Chronological Table | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Olmec studies: a short history | |
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| The Olmec world | |
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| Olman in the eyes of the Aztecs | |
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| Olman in the eyes of the Spanish conquistadors | |
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| Olman's pre-Olmec inhabitants | |
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| The origins of Olmec culture: the Ojochi, Bajio, and Chicharras phase (1500-1200 BC) | |
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| San Lorenzo's Realm | |
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| San Lorenzo's Olmec occupation | |
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| San Lorenzo in the tenth century BC | |
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| San Lorenzo's Royal Compound | |
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| San Lorenzo sculpture | |
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| San Lorenzo's Realm | |
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| San Lorenzo's contemporaries | |
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| San Lorenzo's demise | |
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| La Venta's Realm | |
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| La Venta's Olmec history | |
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| La Venta at its height | |
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| La Venta's formal entrances: Complexes D and I | |
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| La Venta's Royal Compound | |
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| La Venta's hidden sanctuary: Complex A | |
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| La Venta sculpture | |
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| La Venta as a sacred landscape | |
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| La Venta's hinterland | |
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| La Venta's contemporaries | |
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| La Venta's demise and the end of Olmec culture | |
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| Olmec Daily Life and Culture | |
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| Olmec villages and hamlets | |
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| Diet and subsistence | |
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| Technology | |
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| Social and political organization | |
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| Writing, calendrics, and astronomy | |
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| Religion | |
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| Religious practitioners | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Olmec Art | |
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| Monumental sculpture | |
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| Colossal Heads | |
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| Thrones | |
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| Full-figured human and animal sculptures | |
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| Stelae | |
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| Olmec uses of sculpture | |
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| Monument carvings and transport | |
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| Greenstone objects | |
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| Figurines | |
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| Masks | |
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| Ornaments and ritual paraphernalia | |
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| The Olmecs Abroad: Eastern Mesoamerica | |
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| Olmec horizons | |
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| The Early Olmec horizon | |
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| The Early Olmec horizon outside the Soconusco | |
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| The Late Olmec horizon in eastern Mesoamerica | |
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| The Olmecs Abroad: Western Mesoamerica | |
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| The Basin of Mexico and the Tlatilco culture during the Early Olmec horizon | |
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| Life in Tlatilco-culture times | |
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| Puebla | |
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| Morelos | |
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| Guerrero | |
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| Cave paintings | |
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| Oaxaca | |
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| The Late Olmec horizon and Chalcatzingo | |
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| Epi-Olmec Culture | |
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| Tres Zapotes: Olmec village and Epi-Olmec capital | |
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| Epi-Olmec art | |
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| Epi-Olmec intellectual achievements: writing, calendrics, and astronomy | |
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| The Olmec legacy | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Guide to Olmec Sites | |
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| Notes to the Text | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Sources of Illustrations | |
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| Index | |