All over the Internet, you may have seen ‘Beethoven is black’, with an accompanying picture. Please keep me up to date with new postings. I’ve had an interest in Mesoamerican history since I was a kid. 2) Faster evolution. They extracted latex from rubber trees. Ortíz de Montellano, Bernard & Gabriel Haslip Viera & Warren Barbour 1997, C. S. Rafinesque, "First letter to Mr. Champollion on the Graphic systems of Otolum or Palenque in Central America", in. The evidence of African style writing among the Olmecs is evidence for Old World influence in Mexico. Rensberger, B. The crania were from the Pre-Classic period, contemporary with the Olmec. Some HLA genes have many possible variations, allowing each person’s immune system different protections against certain diseases. [13] He supports this claim with cranial evidence from two Mesoamerican sites: Tlatilco and Cerro de las Mesas. Greece even had the temerity to carry a tale that Greece was of significance as a emerging white enclave…that claim was dismissed to the detriment that befell Africa/Egypt allowing outsiders to hunt the south as they conquered the north by marrying into Egypt…what was the attraction, 1.this person you used to make a comparison with the Olmec stone she is mestizo, the color of skin is already indicative of that, or it can not be, only that it looks very much, besides there were no mestizos of Spaniards and natives , since the natives had arrived first. So, if we have Spaniards mating with ‘Natives’, and Mali supposedly had contact with Mesoamerica, then logic would dictate that genetic testing would find African blood in Mesoamerican populations. This agreed with Brainerd and Sharer's, The ancient Maya (1983, p.65) concept of colonial Olmec at Mayan sites. Some researchers claim that the Mesoamerican writing systems are related to African scripts. [4], Some writers claim that the Olmecs were related to peoples of Africa - based primarily on their interpretation of facial features of Olmec statues. Andrzej Wiercinski claims that some of the Olmecs were of African origin. Charles Murray's Philosophically Nonexistent Defense of Race in "Human Diversity". The Nike Air Native N7—Should We Market Shoes to Specific Demographics? There is much emotional fire for Black and Ndgns people when debating this topic. We can see here that neighbor-joining analyses were done by putting together many worldwide and American populations. Dr James Thompson – Psychological Comments, The Mayan Prophecies: Unlocking the Secrets of a Lost Civilization, because Native Americans are descended from Siberians who crossed the Bering Land Bridge 12,000 years ago, since they evolved completely separated from Africa, no gene flow from anywhere else in the world got to the Mesoamericans, and over thousands of years they developed to be a genetically distinct group, They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (Journal of African Civilizations), http://c8.alamy.com/comp/BNPBC9/bushmansan-people-young-girl-with-old-woman-embracing-BNPBC9.jpg, http://www.namibian.org/travel/namibia/pictures/bushmen/fullsize/Child_fs.jpg, https://nomadtours.co.za/discover/highlights/bushman-san-people/, Evolutionary Psychology Does Not Explain Differences Between Rightists and Leftists. Genetics have proven white skin in Europe is the result of a genetic mutation approximately eight thousands years ago. This will be a series of posts on Refuting Afrocentrism, with each successive piece focusing on a different part of the Afrocentric narrative. From this study on Maya genetics, you can see that it says the closest group to the Maya were the Arhuacs, the first recorded Caribbean inhabitants. In the midst of this passion we must ensure our debates remain more of a heart-to-heart, relative to relative type conversation rather than the “I’m right/You’re wrong” fire breathing dis fest that normally takes place. (11:40 min.) Taube, p. 17. This view was challenged in the 1970s by Peter David Joralemon, whose Ph. [27] LDS founder Joseph Smith Jr. placed the arrival of the Jaredites in “the lake country of America” (region of Lake Ontario)[citation needed], allowing for the eventual migration of Book of Mormon peoples to Mexico and Central America.[28]. Though, the researcher says that there was a flow of ideas and culture between the two locations and that through those interactions, a new society developed. . Olmec Life. There are tons of these lies going around the internet, with enough people who believe in Afrocentrism religiously, convinced that the white man hid knowledge of past African greatness. Are they referents of biological…. “Significant genetic input from outside is not noticed in Meso and South American Amerindians according to the genetic analyses; while all world populations (including Africans, Europeans, Asians, Australians, Polynesians, North American Na-Dene Indians and Eskimos) are genetically related. 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Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, A pre-Columbian Y chromosome-specific transition and its implications for human evolutionary history, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olmec_alternative_origin_speculations&oldid=1004279813, Pages using multiple image with manual scaled images, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2009, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2009, All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases, Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from October 2014, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2013, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Colossal Heads. These scarification marks clearly indicate a West African Mandinka (Mende) presence in prehistoric and ancient Meso-America. North/South Differences in Italian IQ: Is Richard Lynn Right? Just 2 tiny little facts..no lets make that three, The fact that man & civilization came out of Africa The Sacred Jaguar VIDEOS The Olmec Faces are Black African? The Olmecs were thought to have died out around 400 BC. Both analyses show that Meso and South Amerindians are not related to the Na-Dene, because they came in one of the 3 migrations out of Siberia into the Americas. Early researchers found religious beliefs to be centered upon a jaguar god. Los Olmecas: Reyes de la Edad de Piedra [History Channel, 2007] (44:50 min.) As I said above, Mesoamericans are so genetically distinct due to faster evolution as well as no gene mixing between regions, which, over time, caused their DNA to mutate to the clade they have today. http://c8.alamy.com/comp/BNPBC9/bushmansan-people-young-girl-with-old-woman-embracing-BNPBC9.jpg http://www.namibian.org/travel/namibia/pictures/bushmen/fullsize/Child_fs.jpg The San are indigenous to South Africa while the Bantus immigrated from West Africa into South Africa and displaced them. Now to see Olmec genetics (Mexican Mazatecan Indians), who are pretty similar to the Maya, as noted above. The Olmec statue heads are clearly of the indigenous peoples in the area, and not of West African Negroids. This further proves another point that I read. In our ur… [26] The tradition leading to this Central American model, however, does not clearly originate with the Book of Mormon (first published in 1830) but with enthusiastic interest in John Lloyd Stephens’ 1841 bestseller, Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. The Olmec Football Player [1] is a 1980 short story by Katherine MacLean. place the literary setting for the Book of Mormon among the “Mound-builders” of North America. ( Log Out /  They are also not related to the Eskimos. Debunked! These measurements were then compared against three crania sets from Poland, Mongolia and Uganda to represent three racial categories which allowed Wiercinski to sort each skull into one or more racial categories. And they are the LOWEST IQ people among all the races. An interdisciplinary analysis of Native American skulls has shown that there is no real evidence, apart from superficial misjudgments and erroneous conclusions, that Native Americans have any link to an African presence in America before the European encounter. Many Olmec skulls show cranial deformations (Pailles, 1980), yet Wiercinski (1972b) was able to determine the ethnic origins of the Olmecs. It’s an extremely interesting book, which goes through the history of the Maya, their astrology, mathematics, agriculture, building methods and so on. My brother told me a few years ago “If you’re looking for something, you’re going to find it”. (11:40 min.) That holds that the Maya developed from the Olmec, but Ceibal is 2 centuries older than La Venta. Maps of Olmec region. In the last section of his paper, Wiercinski compared the physiognomy of the skeletons to corresponding examples of Olmec sculptures and bas-reliefs on the stelas. However, this was only due to a 75-year-old tip-off (of sorts) from oil prospector José Melgar, who had first spotted this enormous stone head in Tabasco way back in 1862. (1972a) "An anthropological study on the origin of 'Olmecs'", Swiatowit, 33, p. 143-174. It’s said that while the Olmecs were building La Venta in Mexico, the Maya were living in loosely associated nomadic groups to the east and southeast. The slave population they had would have been more immune to the diseases. Olmec alternative origin speculations are non-mainstream theories that have been suggested for the formation of Olmec civilization which contradict generally accepted scholarly consensus. Olmec were known as the “jaguar people,” and they produced a very artistic, religious, and scientific culture. So we can see that all Mesoamerican populations are mostly similar to each other, except the Maya who are pretty unique, most likely due to the founder effect from the Caribbean. Alternative archaeological hypotheses on the origin of Olmec civilization. They additionally contend that epigraphical, genetic, and osteological evidence supports their claims. I got this book, The Mayan Prophecies: Unlocking the Secrets of a Lost Civilization, which talked a lot about Maya history, as well as where they came from. Wiercinski's research methods and conclusions are not accepted by the vast majority of Mesoamerican scholars, in part because of his reliance on the Polish Comparative-Morphological methodology which limits the placement of skull types within a very narrow spectrum that is often within Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid. The name ‘Olmec’ is a Nahuatl word meaning ‘the Rubber People’ Nahuatl is an Aztec language. Prove that Negroids has the LOWEST IQ. The indigenous rootstock of Tlatilco and Cerro de las Mesas consists of "Ainoid, Arctic, and Pacific racial elements". These origin theories typically involve contact with Old World societies. Meso and South American Amerindians tend to remain isolated in the neighbour joining analyses.”. [20] In a 1996 book, Mike Xu, with the aid of Chen Hanping, claimed that the very same La Venta celts discussed above actually bore Chinese characters. The "World's Smartest Man" Christopher Langan on Koko the Gorilla's IQ, Problems With Forensic Facial "Reconstruction": Implications for the Facial "Reconstruction" of Ancient Hominin, Towards a Theory of Everyone: Chanda Chisala Rebuttal on the Nature of the Black-White IQ Gap. ( Log Out /  For example, Wiercinski states that the colossal Olmec heads represent the "Dongolan" type. That’s because it’s just Afrocentric rubbish. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. [24], In the Book of Mormon, a text regarded as scripture by churches and members of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Jaredites are described as a people who left the Old World in ancient times and founded a civilization in the Americas. The Olmec portrayed Africans (perhaps African rulers) who must have played an important role among ancient people who carved gigantic depictions to honor them. It has to do with temperature and moisture in the air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmecs#Origins, Click to access Terminal-Pleistocene-Alaskan-genome-reveals-first-founding-population-of-Native-Americans-_-Nature.pdf, http://sci-hub.se/http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/11/07/science.aav2621/tab-pdf, Click to access aav2621-Moreno-Mayar-SM.pdf, https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2818%2931380-1, http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaau4921. Lastly, it is extremely stupid to post pictures of people after the European invasion and colonization aka rape of native people. Them black features are African. Although outside the Olmec heartland, Olmec influences appear in the architectural record. Mainstream American History and Literature specialists[who?] This is attributed to isolation from the rest of the world, as well as faster evolution. So why are there clear negroid features on the Olmec heads? [21][22] These claims are unsupported by mainstream Mesoamerican researchers. Anthropologists have proven the Clovis (Asians) people were not the first based on remains found in a cave that were not of Clovis people and dated over 12000 years. The name ‘Olmec’ is a Nahuatl word meaning ‘the Rubber People’ Nahuatl is an Aztec language. [23] The evidence relied on by Mike Xu, including the coincidence of markings on Olmec pottery with those on Chinese oracle bone writings, the significance of jade in both cultures and the shared knowledge of the position of true North, was discussed in an article by Claire Liu in 1997. Here are some peoples who are said to be descended from Olmecs. DRB1*0407 and DRB1*0802 alleles are found in 50% of Mayans, they’re also found in other Amerindians, but the Maya’s high frequencies may be because of a founder effect from the Mesoamerican-Caribbean population. One of the important ceremonial centers for the Olmec was in La Venta, Mexico. Dr. Wiercinski (1972) claims that the some of the Olmecs were of African origin. The Sacred Jaguar VIDEOS The Olmec Faces are Black African? In it, at least one of the Olmec colossal heads depicts an African-American college student who traveled back in time while wearing his football helmet. Home » Refuting Afrocentrism » Refuting Afrocentrism Part 1: Olmecs Were Africans? To determine the racial heritage of the skeletons, Wiercinski used classic diagnostic traits, determined by craniometric and cranioscopic methods, as well as the Polish Comparative-Morphological School skeletal reference collection. On Racial Preferences and Dating, The Social Construction of the ‘Hispanic/Latino/Spanish’ Race, Follow NotPoliticallyCorrect on WordPress.com. [7] Leo Wiener[8] and others claim that various Olmec and Epi-Olmec symbols are similar to those found in the Vai script (a relatively modern script in Liberia which may have Cherokee influence[9]), in particular, the symbols on the Tuxtla Statuette, Teo Mask,[citation needed] Cascajal Block,[citation needed] and the celts in Offering 4 at La Venta. Specifics concerning Olmec religion are a matter of some conjecture. Our history, identity, and traditions are the doorway to healing the spiritual, psychological, and emotional damage wreaked on our nations by European/Christian colonization. As I said above, most Mesoamerican populations are related to each other, with having no admixture from other parts of the world that all other populations have. Visiting Indian on market day 1. Nicknamed Olmeca ('Rubber People') because they lived in the area known for its rubber trees, the Olmec … "[14] The Classic period is generally defined to start around AD 250, or 600 years after the end of the Olmec culture. That is an African regardless of whether all your scientific tests say otherwise and lets be honest 99% of Caucasian scientific studies are just a bunch of lies to explain why the great ancient monuments of Africa are not in London or Rome…Now just to prove that what i say can be backed up with proper unbiased non racist facts as opposed to most of the racist biased drivel that has plagued the Olmec’s since Europe says they discovered them. Both Central and South American Indians are genetically distinct from the rest of the world. The first evidence of African people interacting with the Olmec civilization comes from a team of The theory of Olmecs being Africans was first developed by Ivan van Sertima in the 70s. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. (11:40 min.) That Arnaiz-Vallena study is garbage! [citation needed] "[5] The view was espoused in the early 20th century by Leo Wiener and others. The Mixe are only related to the Maya on a linguistic basis. If you have any suggestions for future posts, criticisms or praises for me, email me at RaceRealist88@gmail.com. is dated on the Classic period. Human Biodiversity, IQ, Evolutionary Psychology, Epigenetics and Evolution. Although these speculations have become somewhat well-known within popular culture, particularly the idea of an African … African hairstyles such as cornroes are found on many of the Olmec terracotta found in Mexico. [6] Some modern proponents such as Ivan Van Sertima and Clyde Ahmad Winters have identified the Olmecs with the Mandé people of West Africa.[6]. It is done for a few reasons: To stop the spread of a gangrenous infection and…, 2000 words Unless you’ve been living under a rock since the new year, you have heard of the “coup attempt” at the Capitol building on…, 1500 words ‘Health inequalities are the systematic, avoidable and unfair differences in health outcomes that can be observed between populations, between social groups within the…, 1400 words The use of polygenic scores has caused much excitement in the field of socio-genomics. [3] They, and their neighbouring cultures with whom they had contact, developed their own characters which were founded entirely on a remarkably interlinked and ancient cultural and agricultural heritage that was locally shared, but arose independently of any extra-hemispheric influences. Van Sertima claims that Mali seafarers reached Mesoamerica, and had consistent contact with the Olmecs, trading ideas and culture with them. Sure, from direct outward appearance, I can see how people would believe how the head looks like that of a negroid, but genetics tells us a different story. Some LDS scholars identify the Olmec civilization with the Jaredites, citing similarities and noting that the period in which the Olmecs flourished and later declined corresponds roughly with the Jaredite civilization timeline, although most disagree with this idea. Chinese DNA test proved the first Asians were black. Whites, it is argued, have a form of unearned societal privilege which…, 1650 words Summer vacation gives us a natural experiment to study the effects of vacation on IQ—and, unsurprisingly, the outcome is that one’s IQ is…, 1400 words It has come to my attention that near the end of 2007, Nike boasted about releasing a running shoe that specifically targeted Native…, 2350 words On Twitter, user @rasmansa wrote that “One of the places race is least important is in deciding who you should be in love…, 2600 words In daily social discourse, you may have heard people referred to as ‘Hispanic/Latino/Spanish” (HLS) What does this mean? One of the most impressive pieces of evidence which show a direct link between the Black Olmec or Xi People of Mexico and West Africans is the presence of scarification marks on some Olmec terracotta sculpture. Southern Italians and Ashkenazi Jews: What Is the Connection? Marquez (1956, 179-80) made it clear that a common trait of the African skulls found in Mexico They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. These origin theories typically involve contact with Old World societies. Los Olmecas, parte 1 (20:04 min.) Although these speculations have become somewhat well-known within popular culture, particularly the idea of an African connection to the Olmec, they are not regarded as credible by mainstream researchers of Mesoamerica and are considered fringe theories. The idea was first suggested by José Melgar, who discovered the first colossal head at Hueyapan (now Tres Zapotes) in 1862 and subsequently published two papers that attributed this head to a "Negro race. The Olmecs were thought to have died out around 400 BC. . [2] The consensus view maintained across publications in peer-reviewed academic journals that are concerned with Mesoamerican and other pre-Columbian research is that the Olmec and their achievements arose from influences and traditions that were wholly indigenous to the region, or at least the New World, and there is no reliable material evidence to suggest otherwise. The Olmec were American Indians, not Negroes (as Melgar had thought) or Nordic supermen."[30]. Underhill, P.A., Jin, L., Zemans, R., Oefner, J. Schele and Freide (1990) have discussed the Olmec influence over the Maya. West African Trade and Settlement in the Americas Increases Due to Conflicts in the Mediterranean The flowering of the Olmec Civilization occurred between 1500 B.C. Tags: African American, Afrocentrism, black, ethnicity, Refutation, white. They cluster with other Africans: Skin color is a good proxy, but genetic testing is obviously superior, which shows that they cluster with other Africans, and don’t cluster in their own alone. He supports this claim with skeletal evidence from several Olmec sites where he found skeletons that were analogous to the West African … Skeletal Evidence of African Olmecs. In areas where it’s extremely dry and has a lot of heat, a larger mucous area is required to moisten inspired (breathe in; inhale) air, which is why a more flat and narrow nose is needed. Los Olmecas, parte 2 (20 min.) "Some Chinese influence of Shang Period could penetrate Mesoamerica", "A strange transatlantic, more or less sporadic migration" brought, This page was last edited on 1 February 2021, at 21:38. No, Olmecs were certainly not of Sub-Saharan African descent. Peru. Greek is nearer Italy but Egypt created a lot of Greek Martyrs when they went back home after learning in Egypt. I’m pretty sure I have given way more evidence than is needed that the Olemcs were NOT negroids, but alas, you still have people who parrot this clearly refuted and untrue things, because they have absolutely no grasp on humanity in antiquity and will take any type of ‘theory’ that fits their warped worldview. Afrocentrists just take things that agree with their viewpoint, and warp anything they can in an attempt to say that “they were African”. Or that Mozart was black, or Hannibal from Carthage or other historic figures from antiquity were African Negroids. By. Colossal Heads. Recent new evidence has said that the Olmecs and the Maya were easy to differentiate in the Classic Period (250 to 900 AD, which was their Golden Age) because they had language and culture distinct from the Olmecs. While mainstream scholars have made significant progress translating the Maya script, researchers have yet to translate Olmec glyphs. See also Wiercinski, A. Following a progressive development in Soconusco, they occupied the tropical lowlands of the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco. [1] Many are more critical and regard the promotion of such unfounded theories as a form of ethnocentric racism at the expense of indigenous Americans. Based on his comparisons, Wiercinski found that 14% of the skeletons from Tlatilco and 4.5% of the skeletons from Cerro de las Mesas had elements of "Black" racial composition. Not all statues have pulled eyes. Olmec, the first elaborate pre-Columbian civilization of Mesoamerica (c. 1200–400 BCE) and one that is thought to have set many of the fundamental patterns evinced by later American Indian cultures of Mexico and Central America, notably the Maya and the Aztec. Many scholars refuse to admit that Africans early settled America. ( Log Out /  Language and genes do not completely correlate in microgeographical studies. A popular Book of Mormon geography model places the scene of the Jaredite arrival and subsequent development, in lands around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mesoamerica. Being African doesn’t always equal being black since they are native indigenous people in North Africa that are not black and also the San people (Khoisan) that are the world’s most ancient race and unique are Africans too but not black. Now that we have a good background on the Olmec and Maya connection, as well as Maya and Olmec genetics, let’s see what this Afrocentric Olmec theory is about. Anyway, I’m digressing, that will be for a future post. Regardless of all the words written about the Olmec the facts are there in your face. Cerro de las Mesa is within the Olmec heartland, although according to Wiercinski, "the series . They described Maya-specific HLA haplotypes (which are involved in inflammation as well as other immune system activities). There are pictures of statues as well as modern day people who look like them. to 1000 B.C., when over twenty-two collosal heads of basalt were carved representing the West African …