"In fact, 'Olmec' was a name given to the inhabitants of the Gulf Coast by the Aztecs in the 15th century, and meant 'the rubber people,'" writes Professor Michael Coe of Yale University. "Today we don't know who these people were, or even what they called themselves."
「其實『奧爾梅克』是十五世紀的阿茲特克人對墨西哥灣沿岸居民的稱呼，原意是『橡膠之人』」，耶魯大學人類系教授麥可．寇喟嘆說，「我們今天甚至不知道這些人是誰，他們又如何稱呼自己？」