Anthropomorphic plaque, possibly the fire serpent CULTURE: Olmec DATE: 800–400 BCE more object details keyboard_arrow_down Ahuelicán (Mexico) Fire Serpent (Mesoamerican deity) Guerrero (state/Mexico) Gulf Coast Mesoamerican styles Mexico (nation) Middle Preclassic period (Formative period / Mesoamerican periods and styles) Olmec Pre-Columbian (American) Preclassic period (Formative period/Archaic period/Mesoamerican periods and styles) anthropomorphic bands (decorative) carving (processes) cinnabar (mineral and pigment) cinnabar (pigment) circles (plane figures) cleft head (motif) deities drillwork (sculpture technique) fires (events) green (color) heads (representations) incising jaguar (animals) legendary beings (mythical creatures) plaque (flat objects) polishing (finishing) rain (precipitation / weather) sculpture serpentine supernatural (concepts) transformations (concepts / processes) were-jaguar (Mesoamerican mythical figure / deity) more tags keyboard_arrow_down arrow_upward