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[QUOTE]Originally posted by XicanConnection: [QB] The people represented in the Olmec sculptures had short, round, flat faces with thick lips, flat noses, and [b]epicanthic folds[/b]; that is, they resembled people who still live in the tropical lowlands of Mexico (see figs. 10 and 11). [IMG]http://www.thehallofmaat.com/images/robbing010.jpg[/IMG] FIG. 10. Woman from Olmec area. (Photo Donald Corddry, reprinted from Bernal [1968].) [IMG]http://www.thehallofmaat.com/images/robbing011.jpg[/IMG] FIG. 11. Tzotzil from Chiapas. (Photo B Reyes, reprinted from Morley [1947].) Van Sertima (1992b, 1995) places great emphasis on Tres Zapotes head 2 (also known as the Nestepe or Tuxtla head) because it has seven braids dangling from the back, which he claims (1992c:57; 1994:296, fig. 1c), citing no supporting evidence, to be a characteristically Ethiopian hairstyle. He also asserts that the braids are "probably the best hidden secret in Mesoamerican archaeology" (1992b:37), that the "head was never published outside of Mexico" (1992a:7), and that "this photograph was kept in the dark (and I think the blackout was deliberate)" (1992b:38; 1995:74). To support his claim (1992c:37; 1995:74) he quotes the Mexican Olmec scholar Beatriz de la Fuente, who states, "If at any time, one could imagine that there were Negroes in Mesoamerica, it would be after seeing Head 2 of Tres Zapotes, the one that is most removed from the physiognomy of our Indian ancestors" (de la Fuente 1971:58,). However, he overlooks her comment on the next page that "certainly the colossal heads do not represent individuals of the Negro or Ethiopian race as José Melgar, the first Westerner to see one more than a hundred years ago, supposed. We have to agree that in them are recorded, on a heroic scale, the ethnic characteristics of the ancient inhabitants of Mesoamerica, characteristics that are still preserved in some contemporaneous natives" (de la Fuente 1971:59, our translation). P.S. Homeylu,The Mejica(Aztecs) are not direct decendants of the Olmecs. [This message has been edited by XicanConnection (edited 19 July 2004).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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