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[QUOTE]Originally posted by supercar: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [b] Why do Africans spend so much time trying to find themselves in other people's hsitory instead of appreciating their own. I honestly have not seen any definite proof that Olmecs were Africans. You know that Melanesian types were also found in Pre-Colomubia America so maybe these mixture with other types account for the phenotype of the Olmec heads. Any person who studies artwork will tell you that it's hard to make out phenotypes in colossal art work. Can you name a Western African culture contemporary with the Olmecs? The oldest culture in Western Africa I know is Kintampo. The oldest sculpture in western Africa is done by the Nok people. Remeber the Sahara did not completely dry untill about 4,000 years ago. The ancestors of modern western Africas were living in the Central and Southern Sahara. Later when dried they moved southward which places like Djenne and kintampo were established. [/b][/QUOTE] Have you read my post, just before Homeylu's post. I could care less about the Olmec civilization, because frankly it doesn't connect to me. All I am saying is that Africans must have found their way there. Just because I say this, doesn't mean that I want to claim Olmec civilization. It is simply from archeological findings I mentioned earlier, that have brought me to the conclusion that Africans must have found their way to Americas. I have posted my explanation as to why Olmec heads aren't found in West Africa, but yet you keeping asking the same question over and over again. For once, can someone answer (instead of dodging it)why elephants, not found in the Americas, found their way to ancient American and Olmec sculptures! Can someone also disprove the connection between elements of Olmec scripts and those found in Proto-Saharan region? Like I said time and again, Africans may have found their way to Americas and joined populations that were already there. There may even have been a rudimentary civilization already there, but a blend of people of various cultures may have given rise to the civilization that came to be known as Olmec civilization. Civilizations don't just sprout from nowhere! Why didn't the Olmec civilization occur much earlier? But it seems to me the blending of cultures (Native Indian, African and Southeast Asian), as I stated earlier, must have given rise to the Olmec civilization. Whether Africans had anything to do with the Olmec civilization is debatable, but why should that mean that they never made their way over there? The Europeans made their way to Kemet, but that doesn't mean that Kemet is European produced civilization. The same can be said of Africans in the Americans; making their way to America doesn't imply that they started the civilization there. But naturally, if they blended into the society there, they would have contributed to the cultural "richness" of that society. [This message has been edited by supercar (edited 19 July 2004).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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