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Before you read Mr. Vincent’s article you must know that the first civilization of ancient America was called Olmec. It was located along the Mexican Gulf Coast and began more than three thousand years ago. The most significant and widely acknowledged sculptural representations of African people in the Western Hemisphere (“New World”) were sculpted by the Olmecs.
The Olmec developed the first civilization in the Americas. At least seventeen monumental basalt stone heads weighing ten to forty tons have been unearthed in Olmec sites along the Mexican Gulf Coast. One of the first European-American scientists to comment on the Olmec heads, archaeologist Mathew Stirling, described the Olmec head’s facial features as “amazingly Negroid."
In 1513, Balboa found a colony of Black men on his arrival in Darien, Panama. All of these facts, buttressed by skeletons and sculptures, make it clear that African people had a profound presence and influence in pre-Columbian America.
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They Came Before Columbus By: Ivan Van Sertima
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4 April 2008, 17:25, by Amerikagulag
Indeed, the black race was here long before Columbus ’got lost’. The ancients sailed the seas as there were trade routes before the changing of the continents.
The Olmec heads are a classic example of the fact that the people who inhabited the Yucatan basin in ancient times were of the negroid race.
There has even been a small statue of an elephant discovered among the artifacts of Mex-America. It was formerly housed in the Museum in Mexico City. It has been removed and hidden, or perhaps destroyed because it contradicts the ’linear advancement’ theory currently being put forth by archeology.
I might say though, that the earliest civilizations in this hemisphere are much older than 3000 years. The coasts of Brazil and Argentina have yielded evidence of settlement that dates back some 18000 years. We’re only beginning to unearth the past.