Monumental edition comprising the proceedings of the 1st round table on the Olmeca culture held in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City in March of 2005. The printed 2 volumes contains the transcriptions of the open multidisciplinary sessions centered in the strong cultural influence of the 3,000-year-old Olmec civilization in Mesoamerica and highlighting the characteristics of their human components: linguistics, iconography, art, culture, religion and the recent archaeological findings on America's oldest civilization.