sentences:  While Classic Veracruz culture shows influences from Teotihuacan and the Maya, neither of these cultures are its direct antecedents.Instead, the seeds of this culture seems to have come at least in part from the Epi-Olmec culture centers, such as Cerro de las Mesas and La Mojarra.Until the early 1950s, the Classic Veracruz ceramics were few, little understood, and generally without provenance.