Multiple choice

Which of these does not describe the Olmecs

  1. Built monumental head shaped statues

  2. Mother of Mesoamerican civilisation

  3. highly religious society

  4. Ancestor of Mississippi mound culture
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The Olmecs were a Mesoamerican civilization. The Mississippi mound culture (Mississippian culture) developed much later and in a different geographic region, so it is not an ancestor of the Olmecs.

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