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They Were NOT Here before Columbus: Afrocentric Hyperdiffusionism in the 1990s

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Egyptian Contact with the Americas Claims

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Peer-reviewed Current Anthropology critique of transatlantic Olmec and African hyperdiffusion arguments, including the methodological limits of racialized visual resemblance.

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A 1992 toxicology report documents disputed mummy residues, but the catalog contains no secure evidence establishing Egyptian voyages, trade, or influence in the pre-Columbian Americas.

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