Others include the Olmec, Zapotec, and Epi-Olmec/Isthmian writing systems.
Irving Cano, the Zapotec who seeks to rescue his culture through graffiti.
For example, in Zapotec alone there are at least five variants being spoken.
These dialects have become so distinct that Zapotec from different areas cannot understand one another.
These civilizations were removed as the smaller, alliance based tribes and were replaced by the Huron,
Cheyenne, and Zapotec, respectively.
San José Mogote was eventual
overtaken by Monte Albán, the subsequent capital of the Zapotec empire, during the Late Preclassic.
For many pre-Columbian cultures, such as the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, and Aztec, it was a ritual,
political and social activity that involved the whole community.
It has been said that the painter adopted this image to please her husband, muralist Diego Rivera,
who was fond of the powerful‘Zapotec' women from this region of the Mexico.