Download or read book America's First Civilization written by Michael D. Coe and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of America's oldest - and oddest - civilization, the Olmecs of the southern Mexican jungles. Virtually unknown to archaeologists until the early twentieth century, their true importance is only now being realized and shedding new light on how the Indian peoples of the Americas came to be here.