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[QUOTE]Originally posted by supercar: [QB] XicanConnection, it is good to know that you've gone to great lengths to prove that Africans never made their way to Americas, and therefore have no connection with the Olmecs. Here is what I found on the web: Reference to Johannessen, Carl L. Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Oregon, field research in Latin America and Asia, crops plants and Chicken. "[b]The Idea of Elephants Diffused Early to the Americas:[/b] Elephant images are found in sculpturess and in writings in Mexico, Belize, Honduras, and Guatemala. [b]The oldest elephant head was sculptured on top of a human form during the age of the Olmec culture and found in the Huasteca of Mexico, who speak a Mayan language.[/b] The most complete elephant shape is from the Honduran archeological ruin at Copan in Stela B. The elephant's trunk is part of the Rain God Chac (in Mayan) and Tlaloc (in Nahuatle) in Belize. It is found in major concentrations as part of the face of the Rain God in the Puuc region of Yucatan, where they really did need the rains. The trunk curves or recurves in various ways that are elephantine and not of a Macaw as has been sometimes claimed. The Codex shows an elephant, trunk upraised, spouting water that falls as rain for the maize crop." We've already talked about the elephant sculpture found in the museum, where other Olmec artifacts are kept. Here is a question for you.[b] How do you suppose people who haven't been to Africa, have come to know about an elephant; something they weren't supposed to be familiar with given the time era involved?[/b] It is not as if in the ancient times, they had access to library books and cameras to know about these animals. Is it not possible that Africans indeed made their way to Americas, and merged with people who were already there? And it seems that not only Africans reached there, but people from Southeast Asia as well. That explains some of the "flat" faces of Olmec heads, while others show a more rounded face with so-called Negroid features. I figure if the Africans went there and intermingled or lived with populations over there, they may have all played a role in bringing about the unique Olmec culture. Indeed a case has been made that, Olmec scripts have elements similar to that found on the Proto-Saharan monuments and pots. Hieroglyphics of Kemet and the Manding scripts, have also been linked to the Proto-Saharan scripts. This doesn't necessarily mean that Africans reached the Americas and started the civilization there, but it does suggest that they were present there when the civilization was being born. Did the people already living in America have their own traditions before the advent of African travelers? I am sure they did. But it was perhaps the amalgamation of different cultures or traditions that gave rise to the unique Olmec civilization, incorporating elements from Native American Indians, Africans, and Southeast Asians. As such, their traditions are going to be different from Africans and Asians. That would explain the lack of Olmec heads in Africa. But as you go south of Africa, in modern day Zimbabwe, you'll find Sculptured stone heads of similar size as that of the Olmec heads! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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