Chips off the same block In contrast to these seemingly farfetched ideas, some recent archeological finds have shown that the Olmec culture did not appear "overnight." Many permanent settlements had developed previously.
相對於這些近似牽強的傳播證據，近來的考古發掘顯示奧爾梅克並非在「一夕之間」崛起，在它之前已有分佈多處的聚落發展。