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Anthropology

Odin2005

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8. The Olmec heads? They don't look Sub-Saharan African to me.

Reply to shraby (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 11:49 PM

Dec 2011

if early Niger-Congo-speaking peoples had gotten to the New World we would know, since they were a very powerful, complex, and rapidly expanding culture with extremely high-quality iron-smelting techniques.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nok_culture

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Where is everyone? Anybody read the Nov. 2011 Scientific American that destroys Clovis First? [View all] csziggy Dec 2011 OP

Interesting Theory Possumpoint Dec 2011 #1

Hmm, maybe some supporting evidence. Yo_Mama Mar 2012 #11

Digs in South America have shown it was inhabited much earlier than shraby Dec 2011 #2

I believe you meant Tom Dillehay & Chile. era veteran Dec 2011 #5

Yup, Tom, not Tim. Sorry bout that. shraby Dec 2011 #6

I had Dillehay for a class right after he found it. Fascinating era veteran Dec 2011 #9

You lucky stiff! shraby Dec 2011 #10

I have a theory too. Look at a marybourg Dec 2011 #3

Clovis-first has been dead for a while. Also, IMO... Odin2005 Dec 2011 #4

What about the obviously Negroid type heads found in shraby Dec 2011 #7

The Olmec heads? They don't look Sub-Saharan African to me. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #8

The Olmec heads are stylized... a la izquierda Mar 2012 #12