title: Epi-Olmec
text: # Epi-Olmec
  
  Epi-Olmec ("post-Olmec") may refer to:
  
  * Epi-Olmec culture, pre-Columbian archaeological culture/area in the coastal Veracruz region of Mexico, ca. 300BCE–250CE
  * Isthmian script, also known as Epi-Olmec script, a Mesoamerican writing system
  
  ## Contrast with
  
  * Olmec, earlier and distinct Mesoamerican archaeological culture and tradition, dating ca. 1200–400 BCE
  * Olmeca-Xicalanca, a Mesoamerican culture living in Mexico's Veracruz and Tabasco regions at the time of the 16thC Spanish conquest
  