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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Archeopteryx: [QB] Well, I have a friend who worked in Mexico for 30 years now and not even when he first went there any serious scholar upheld that idea, since they just did not find any tangible evidence on Africans in the Americas in precolumbian times. There were perhaps some old, excentric out of date scholar but the consensus already then were that the Olmec culture, and other similar cultures were autochthonous indigenous developments. I also remember when I studied archaeology in the university there were never mentioned any Africans in ancient Americas. Also when I worked in a museum that had, among many other things, precolumbian American artifacts none of the experts even mentioned the idea of ancient Africans. So since long time most Americanists have considered such ideas being fringe ideas. Anyway, even if the fringe elements who forward the African Olmec myth (and similar ideas) are few they are rather loud. Maybe they are getting fewer though, I do not encounter them as often today as I did a couple of years ago. Hopefully also fewer and fewer people take their claims seriously. Otherwise eccentric scholars, or scholars who did not follow the latest research also have claimed that the ancient Olmecs had affinities with China. Non scholars have also speculated about Middle Eastern or European affinity. Seems everyone wants to be an Olmec. -- If one Egyptian say one thing so another can say something different. There are many voices in a country. There are always a group of people in every country who like history, and now with social media that group grows. Same in USA or Sweden most people are not history buffs, but still enough many to uphold a discussion. And you can still not know exactly how the history interest in Egypt is until you been there and asked people. Everything else will be second hand information. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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