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   @BataHabana

   October 20, 2020 at 2:30 am

   Yanga de Enrique D'Flon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFt8CH_BHXg&list=PLoK_29QNETkbU9BukYO5dcsgx72gx8I2I

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   @iseytheteethsnake6290

   March 30, 2021 at 5:29 pm

   Dont forget guerrero!

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   @necuametlquauhtli6439

   June 11, 2021 at 11:28 am

   Olmec civilization

   April 21, 2020 ·

   University archaeologists discard the theory that the oldest civilization in Mesoamerica has its roots in Africa

   • They conducted studies of mitochondrial DNA in human remains found in archaeological sites in Veracruz

   • They confirm that the Olmecs belong to one of the most abundant groups among the populations founders and indigenous of America

   The origin of the Olmec colossal heads is not African, as rumored for 150 years, but Mesoamerican, said Ann Cyphers, an academic at the Institute of Anthropological Research (IIA) of UNAM, who together with her collaborators have conducted mitochondrial DNA studies that prove the identity of the Olmecs, the oldest civilization in these lands.

   The expert recalled that theories of African origin and transoceanic migrations are deeply rooted in the collective imagination, so "it has been very difficult to shake off these ideas."

   Ann Cyphers, discoverer in 1994 of the most recent of the 17 Olmec heads known so far, found at the archaeological site of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, in Veracruz, explained that this thesis dates from 1869 and was proposed by José María Melgar y Serrano, who reported the first colossal head (called Hueyapan), in what is now Tres Zapotes, Veracruz.

   “At the time, the existence of the Olmec culture was not known, and Melgar proposed that the features of the sculptures corresponded to characters from Ethiopia, people of the black race, mainly due to the features of the face. Hence, that speculation was born and a controversy formed that haunts us in Olmec archeology. ”

   For the researcher, the wide and flattened features of the faces of the colossal heads are explained because the rulers' thrones, which were large prisms, were recycled to make the sculptures.

   Reusing the thrones was important, because in addition to being a symbol of the ruler, this avoided bringing more rocks from other populations. Since they wanted the head to be as large as possible, they accommodated the image of the ruler in the prism and the face was deformed.

   “That greatly clarifies the reason for the compressed features. It is understood, for example, the wide nose and mouth, because no head has protruding elements, everything is compact, glued, it is part of the prism ”.

   DNA studies

   In excavations carried out for years in the Olmec sites and when scientifically studying various pieces of that civilization, university archaeologists have not found African artifacts; This is a first line of research that rules out the origin in that continent.

   The second line contemplates DNA studies, which previously could not be done because there were no Olmec burials, “those that had been found were dusty. But we found some in San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan, and Enrique Villamar Becerril, collaborator of my group, did the mitochondrial DNA study, "he explained.

   In this regard, Villamar indicated that two burials were sampled: one in Loma del Zapote (dating from 1,200 BC) and the other in San Lorenzo (1,000 BC). "From these two individuals, a bone sample was taken from the rib and underwent a procedure to obtain their mitochondrial DNA, the lineage that the mother provides to an individual, because it is more feasible to recover it from archaeological remains."

   Thus he achieved the classification of that genetic information, called a haplogroup. "The genetic diversity of mitochondrial DNA can be classified according to the similarities that exist in various individuals, and they can share some mutations that make them different from other individuals in different geographic regions of the world."

   These differences allow to define to which group they belong, and thus the mitochondrial DNA is classified into haplogroups. “We obtained the haplogroup of these two subjects and learned that they belong to A, one of the most abundant among the founding and indigenous populations of America. If they had been African, the haplogroup would be L, which is characteristic of these populations, "he stressed.

   In addition, Cyphers remarked, if there were African genetic material in the Olmecs, it would not only be seen in burials, but in later populations, since the haplogroup L (which was not found here) would have been preserved. "In 300 Mesoamerican burials from different times it is not present."

   On the discovery of the colossal head 17, he commented: “we were looking for homes and suddenly it appeared, it was like a dream. Each new thing contributes to changing the perception that one has of what that culture was like ”.

   Describing the Olmecs, Cyphers said: they were “the first civilization in Mesoamerica, powerful rulers; in a word, a civilization ”.

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   @quengosh2807

   June 25, 2021 at 10:51 am

   I always say mother Africa’s children are at the four corners of the world 🌍

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   @quengosh2807

   June 25, 2021 at 10:52 am

   Mother Africa’s are at the four corners of the earth 🌍

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