Carving an Olmec Colossal Head
“Gulf coast jungle clearing of San Lorenzo, c. 900 BCE. Basalt sculptors chip a four-meter head into shape. Foreground shows chisels of harder stone, rope sledges still wet with rain, and chips of black rock; midground reveals workshops and ceremonial mounds; the green wall of the forest steams in the morning sun, parrots flashing through the canopy.”
