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Robbing Native American Cultures: Van Sertima's Afrocentricity and the Olmecs

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AT-0978

Olmec

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Peer-reviewed critique of the evidentiary and chronological problems in Van Sertima's African-contact case; a claim-specific corrective, not a dismissal of African or Indigenous history.

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The listed Olmec evidence does not establish that visual resemblance in the colossal heads proves pre-Columbian African contact or ancestry.

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AT-0979 documents Van Sertima's modern African-contact argument; it is not archaeological evidence that Africans created or ancestrally constituted Olmec society.

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