We took a quick drive out to the excavation area, now fully farmed. We knew that this would be our last chance to go there. On the way we saw these campesinos, field workers, planting corn by drilling the holes with sticks and dropping in the seed.



Because this monticulo had been freshly plowed, the missionaries wanted to jump out and poke around for any loose artifacts. They found a few pottery shards.


There are many pyramids along the road and surrounded by sugar cane. We drove less than a mile out of the town, Tres Zapotes, and saw half a dozen.


A freshly plowed field, sugar cane, and the Hill Vigia. We can't help but imagine what it looked like when thousands and thousands of Olmec inhabited the region.