Olmec Social Club Of Mexico: Americans In Addition To Africans Earlier Spain's Colonization Of The Americas

Olmec Head at La Venta Park, Villahermosa. Tabasco, Mexico

The Olmec culture was a pre-Columbian social club inside the heartland of the Americas, operating every bit a kingdom c. 1200 BC to 400 BC. The Olmec social club included the electrical flow geographic regions of Mexico, parts of what is right away the United States' Colorado, Texas, California, together with into Canada. The Olmec existed earlier the Maya, Toltec, together with Aztec civilizations. The early on query of Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, every bit laid upwards out inwards his book They Came Before Columbus, confirmed the Kmt-Nubian (Nilotic African) presence amongst the Olmec through reports of carbon dating skeletal bones together with iconographic stones to 948-680 BCE.

The rock heads that rest at Olmec furnish snap shots of the Kemet-Nubians that sailed from the Nile valley portion from the horn of Africa to non alone Europe together with Asia, only to the Americas earlier the Christian-era. This documentary provides alive footage of Dr. Ivan Van Sertima's on-site query inwards the Olmec regions of the Americas, such every bit the Olmec working capital alphabetic quality of La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico.

Africans inwards America are described past times the local historian/tour direct inwards this documentary every bit a priesthood class. Dr. Van Sertima states that they were amongst the ruling elite of the Olmec, living amongst Mesoamerican native societies inwards relative harmony.

BHH blogger inwards front end of 1 of the 2 Olmec heads featured at LACMA's exhibition 

"Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico" inwards Oct 2010 inwards Los Angeles

Further references: 

• Dr. Ivan Van Sertima bully archaeological together with history documentary serial HERE or at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IywJ1DGuecY.

• They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence inwards Ancient America, by Ivan Van Sertima (2003)