La mulata - statue of African woman, Yucatan Mexico circa 800 AD
Foot high statue from the Yucatan was tentatively dated from around 800 a.d. If this is accurate, it shows an African presence that was long after the Olmecs, and yet before the arrival of the Spaniards.
migente.com: the olmecs -aka- the xi are the motherculture of mexico, they are also the oldest civilization in the americas, who came from africa. discoveries in the field of linguistics and other methods have shown without a doubt, that the ancient olmecs of mexico, known as the xi people, came originally from west africa and were of the mende african ethnic stock. according to clyde a. winters and other writers (see clyde a. winters website), the mende script was discovered on some of the ancient olmec monuments of mexico and were found to be identical to the very same script used by the mende people of west africa. although the carbon fourteen testing date for the presence of the black olmecs or xi people is about 1500 b.c., journies to the mexico and the southern united states may have come from west africa much earlier, particularly around five thousand years before christ. that conclusion is based on the finding of an african native cotton that was discovered in north america. it`s only possible manner of arriving where it was found had to have been through human hands.
Ivan Van Sertima dealt with the cotton issue in one of his books. 23 of the chromosomes of the indigenous American cotton can be traced back to Africa. It could not have gotten to this land mass by any other means but by hand.
Ruel Daniels
15 Apr 08 at 7:14 pm
Guyana’s own Ivan Van Sertima!
we’re going to do some more research and follow up on this one…lots of info out there on this and the Olmecs as well
resist
16 Apr 08 at 3:58 pm