The Olmecs were African (negroid)?

[gelaye]

www.theperspective.org/olmecs.html

this isnt an afrocentric site lol dont worry and i have seen this stuff on a few other sites, ive checked with afro centrict sites who obviously agree with this but what are your opinions? whats the likelehood? (theres alot on this topic on the net)

[hs]

Olmecs were definetely very mongoloid looking, staunch ones.

[Crimson Guard]

They werent Negroid...Some though use those statues as evidence of an earliar cross-Atlantic connection(Pre-Columbus/Ericson) between the Americas & Europe and Africa..

[mike2]

The Olmecs were definitely not Negroid. They were Mongoloids. Probably Centralids, to be exact, no different from other Central American peoples.



People have distorted ideas of what Amerinds look like. They aren't all red-skinned, hawk-nosed Silvids. The Olmec heads fall well in the range of Amerindian variation, even though I do admit it's easy to see the face of a black man in the sculptures if one is so inclined. But it's also not hard to see a squat, flat-faced, exaggerated depiction of a Mongoloid face, which is the closest to the truth.

Either way, it is likely that any "black" features found among the Olmecs were Australoid in nature, not Negroid. At least the presence of Australoids in the Americas can be and has been supported. Negroids in the Americas, on the other hand, is pure unadulterated Afrocentric crap the likes of which bottomfeeders like Legrand Clegg gobble up.

I dislike Eurocentrics and Nordicists who actively seek out Caucasoid-looking busts and artifacts to justify their idea that Europeans are the creators of civilization. I dislike the Afrocentrics who do the same thing just as much.

[Cerdic]

There is also the point of ease of production. The colossal heads were carved from boulders using wooden and stone tools, the features are in relatively low relief because of the difficulty in cutting with such soft or breakable tools. The amount of material needed to be carved away to produce a head with a large aquiline nose would have been prohibitive. There are many smaller sculptures of humans produced by the Olmecs which look very much more typically Mesoamerican. Some indeed look markedly Mongoliform and at least one (of a bearded man) looks superficially Caucasoid.

[lurker4now]

[Drooperdoo]

Olmecs don't look negroid at all. They look Polynesian--which is probably why Thor Heyerdahl evolved his theory that Polynesians made their way to Central America.

P.S.--You can discern the difference between a Mexican Indian and a Central American Indian due to the Polynesian look. Several immigrants of "suspect legality" work at my supermarket. One of the Central Americans looks EXACTLY like the Olmec statues . . . and strikes quite a contrast from the Southern Mexicans who look more classically Aztec.