Giant Olmec Heads - Explained
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- The stone head sculptures of the Olmec civilization of the Gulf Coast of Mexico (1200 BCE - 400 BCE) are amongst the most mysterious and debated artefacts from the ancient world. The most agreed upon theory is that, because of their unique physical features and the difficulty and cost involved in their creation, they represent Olmec rulers.
Seventeen heads have been discovered to date, 10 of which are from San Lorenzo and 4 from La Venta; two of the most important Olmec centres.
The heads were each carved from a single basalt boulder which in some cases were transported 100 km or more to their final destination, presumably using huge balsa river rafts wherever possible and log rollers on land.
The fact that these giant sculptures depict only the head may be explained by the widely held belief in Mesoamerican culture that it was the head alone which contained the emotions, experience, and soul of an individual.
Facial details were drilled into the stone (using reeds and wet sand) so that prominent features such as the eyes, mouth, and nostrils have real depth. Some also have deliberately drilled dimples on the cheeks, chin, and lips. The heads all display unique facial features - often in a very naturalistic and expressive manner - so that they may be considered portraits of actual rulers. The scholar M.E. Miller identifies Colossal Head 5, for example, as a second-millenium BCE ruler of San Lorenzo. Although the physionomy of the sculptures has given rise to unfounded speculation of contact with civilizations from Africa, in fact, the physical features common to the heads are still seen today in residents of the modern Mexican cities of Tabasco and Veracruz.
Miller suggests that perhaps a specific ruler's throne was converted into a colossal portrait in an act of remembrance following that ruler's death.
Many of the stones are difficult to place in their original context as they were not necessarily found in the positions the Olmecs had originally put them. Indeed, Almere Read suggests that even the Olmecs themselves regularly moved the heads around for different ritual purposes. Another theory is that the heads were used as powerful markers of rulership and distributed to declare political dominance in various territories. Interestingly, the four heads from La Venta were perhaps originally positioned with such a purpose in mind so that they stood as guardians to the sacred precinct of the city. Three were positioned at the northern end of the complex and the other one stood at the southern end; but all faced outwards as if protecting the precinct. These heads are very similar to the San Lorenzo heads but display a regional variance in that they are wider and more squat in appearance.
That the other heads might have been discovered out of their original setting is suggested by the fact that very often they show signs of deliberate vandalism and most were buried sometime before 900 BCE in what appears to have been a purposeful ritual distancing with the past. However, it has also been suggested that some of the heads were buried shortly after their production in a process of ancestor worship or that they were defaced and buried by subsequent rulers to legitimize their claim to power and exclude competing lineages. It could also be that they were even damaged in order to neutralize the dead ruler's power. Whatever the reason, the heads were buried and forgotten for nearly three thousand years until the first head was re-discovered, in 1871 CE, with the last being excavated as recently as 1994 CE.
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Are you trying white wash history?
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@@sirleroyale4412 calling the Olmecs native Americans is “whitewashing” history? LMAO that’s new.
@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 this information isn’t right and exact.. this is part of washing what your doing
@@sirleroyale4412 feel free to reference current academic references that support your stance and debunk this video :) I’ll wait
from cultures all around the world I hear the same "these multi ton stones were moved hundreds of kilometers"
it proves those people had a network spanning hundreds of kilometers.
yet in my childhood the concept of stone age people (as it was presented to me) were a small village of grunting simpletons.
it is evident that these people were sophisticated.
@@bobjohnson5447 well you gotta know there's a stone there you want before you just travel a long distance to get it and bring it back to your city.
I'm talking about rocks not gods here, please don't change the subject.
European propaganda
@@djeio exactly
@@bobjohnson5447 I think you're exaggerating what I originally talked about when I said "network"
so I guess you could say you're the one who missed the point.
@@bobjohnson5447 funny how you didn't apologize for being unclear in your own posts, hypocrite.
just learn how to read
Ask a cop, they’ll tell you exactly who they look like.
That they are not White European! They are not African, there are Afro-centrics that make that claim because of Van Sertima but he was wrong the DNA isn't there and he was just Culture Appropriating.
Yup 😊
Facts!
You didn't. 😂
Thats called ignorance. Tje heads arent accurate like a greek statue they are more artistic its called atistic license. Look at the stone heads of easter island you think they really depict actual people?? Its ART things will be exaggerated especially on something like a huge head where they sre keeping facial feature from sticking out of the prism.
I know a Guatemalan woman who looks extremely like these stone faces, although she has an epicanthic fold. In my country, people assume she is from Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam that region of south east Asia.
😂😂😂
its because natives of north and south americas are related to east asians. They come from a common ancestors.
@@hpacker394Those are big black African noses and big full African lips. You'll are forever in denial.
Everybody in my family looks like the Olmec I'm black please stop it
Thats today millions of years after the Olmecs...once the tribe from Europe crossed the Baring straights, killed off the men & raped the women...you got what you got now
If you go to the museum of anthropology in Xalapa they have more of these heads than any place in the world.
THANK YOU....
I wouldn't expect to find them anywhere else in the world apart from Central America.
@@two_tier_gary_rumain why is that Gary!! When there are bigger heads in AFRICA..where MEGALITHIC building ORIGINATED…where is the pre megalithic Indian culture…there isn’t any
@@UrbanDanceAcademyLA Hogwash!
@@two_tier_gary_rumain that’s exactly what I thought 🤡👹your RAYCIST LIES are over ! We know who we are now and who YOU ARE NOT🤡
Beautiful art from an ancient civilization. Mexico is a very interesting land for archaeology enthusiasts.
who is clyde winter... father of the abos... Winters says he is "Professor of Education, Anthropology and Linguistics, Uthman dan Fodio Institute (UdFI)", as well as a "Faculty Member, Archaeogenetics", an "Associate Professor" and "Director" at the same institute.The problem is this institution with an archaeogenetics department does not exist. Records show the UdFI is a private home school in Chicago with a staff of one person: Clyde Winters. The private school also appears to be his own house.
Uthman Dan Fodio Institute is the equivalent of Trump University 😂
Good to know
As your watching a guy in his bedroom
oh yes, I just love reading the comments of all these youtube scholars. It's as you love being spoon-fed information instead of researching it for yourself. other than that I love this channell
"Find the tablet with the right password and shout it out, to open the door to the SHRINE OF THE SILVER MONKEY"
-Olmec
Is that an Olmec legend?
@@neilsonlee7610 yes, the legend of the hidden temple
All the people debating who it represents clearly never lived and grew up in Mexico there thousand of people that look like this smh lol and this is just one of the many different kind of OMLMEC sculptures there’s other ones that also look more Asian. NATIVES don’t only have one look
Thank you, I’ve been telling these fools, who think the Olmecs were African. There are heads of people, that look Asian and European.
@@johnnyflores5954 I haven’t seen too many Europeans with THOSE negro features and I’m white. 🤫🤔
Thick lips sink ships.
I think they were aboriginal people
They look vietnameseish to me.
It seems difficult to believe that 8 ton stones were moved by rolling logs and river rafts.
Don’t underestimate the power of Mexicans
These civilizations were more advanced than us. They had technology and abilities we no longer have.
Try Acoustic levitation. Why are instruments, specifically large drums and wind instruments regarded so highly in these indigenous cultures. But I will refrain from exposing too much of this indigenous knowledge for it will be mocked and stolen as many things have done. Luckily for us, these ancient pieces of knowledge have been preserved from colonial terror mostly and how to attain it is even harder.
Only Africans could have done that......the heads are brothers!
They tried to reenact this for the time of this period. The boat sank and just using logs would have never worked over the terrain.
Nice - the megalithic Olmec heads as a topic. I do take issue with the idea of transporting hundred ton boulders on either "balsa" rafts or on log rollers through dense vegetation. I'm not sure archeologists should be suggesting methods of transportation when they don't seem to understand what's requireed to float 100 tons and navigate a river, especially that distance. Or the hardness of wood required and the road bed needed to actually roll that weight. Take a peek at the hundred ton guns on either Malta or Gibralter, and how they were transported and moved into final location. It took 87 days, with modern equipment, just to move them from the docks to the gun mounts on arrival. Each gun was sent from England on it's own cargo ship, specially desinged for the shipment. When something is not known it should be portrayed as such instead of attempting to supply answers from thin air. It detracts from the entire presentation in terms of credebility. It's as egregious as suggesting the rocks were cut with powered tools. I'm curious as to where Mr. Cartwright obtained this transportation information for his article.
mayan cities and that area had cleared clean roads they could have used, no dense vegetation so transport through land or water was prob a breeze for them. they are the first to used raised roads and had the first freeway. also think it was brought in as powder and big squared mold to make a brick then carve it with jade into a head
@@krono5el I wasn't actually looking for suggestions as to the method, only stating that a claim such as that made requires evidence. Evidence at this point says a balsa barge isn't even a method.
By the way, you say Maya but the video talks of the Olmec heads which far pre-date the Maya. If, as you say, the Maya were the first with roads and the Olmec were before the Maya . . . well it stands to reason that the Olmec didn't have roads and your suggested method of moving 100 ton boulders 60 miles through jungle doesn't stand much scrutiny.
@@TheDeadlyDan Legend says that the Megalithic Baalbek was built by Giants, where the largest carved stone discovered is found.
The ancients also considered their rulers as god-kings, this may also have once reflected a Giant race & after they died out, the regular sized humans simply carried on the mythologies of being god-kings or emerged as rulers sacrificing to gods without claiming to be one themselves
One thing all these ancient cultures with megaliths had in common is blood sacrifice/human sacrifice
That raft mode suggestion of Transport is so ridiculous....I stopped watching the video😡😡
OMG Daniel you're killing it. Nothing no so true. I don't believe they heard you though. Respect! Wow! But sadly D we have a large population of people who really don't value things like facts, the truth, reality etc. It blows my mind. They want what makes them feel good. They don't like feeling uncomfortable. Truth be dammed. I think I get it.
Such topics are best addressed by actual researchers rather than self proclaimed experts on YT.
Long live the Olmec legacy 💕
prob just Maya from that region prob the best with rubber and ball players, and why the aztec called them rubber people from old maya stories of their mastery of the rubber tree. prob why the ball players have statues of their heads with rubber helmets for ballgames.
I just got back to the hotel room after visiting the Museo Nacional de Antropología (MNA), tomorrow we go to Veracruz to study more Olmec Culture. So, I can tell you from first-hand experience that many of these Olmec leaders were obviously African.
What's predictable yet funny is how at 3:28 the narrator says "the physical features common to the heads can still be seen today" then he goes on to show a Mestizo who looks nothing like the heads. A Nubian like Bol Bol looks more like the giant Olmec heads than does the Mestizo show in this video. Cognitive dissonance is very common amongst those who have succumb to a Eurocentric, white nationalist perspective of the world as evidenced by the narrator of this video.
The Olmec were known as "The Rubber People".They played a game t the death with rubber balls. They wore helmets in these games. In my unscientific personal opinion, they were athletes that sacrificed themselves bt winning the game and being put to death. Then they were revered and immortalized with the stone heads.
Where are you getting this info from?
Plausible explanation, they also look African, so maybe Afticans were imported because they can play ball.
Rubber trees were found in the Amazon region of South America. There were none in Central America.
@@232lalas they didnt know what ball was until 1400s
@Mama moo Sure, thanks for the warning, even the African cornrolls on the Olmec heads are Amerindian I suppose. You're so confidently ignorant.
Thank you! If you go to the museum in San Lorenzo, Tenochtitlan, You will see one of these heads unfinished, in the process of "construction". There anyone can clearly see that the rock had the consistency of toothpaste or even more liquid. (but this is obvious in many places in the Americas). They had techniques that used laws of nature that are not the ones we are using today. Since we can not undestand it, we call it magic. Of course, the eyes can see clearly but can the mind accept what the eyes see? It depends on what kind of mind we have, closed or open, free or in bondage.
This is not really explained...
I worked with a Guatemalan who looked exactly like Colossal Head 1 , I’m talking about f**king exactly . I showed him but he didn’t care.
WHY ARE THEY (NARRATOR) REFERRING THE STRUCTURES AS "COLLOSAL HEAD" WHEN IT IS INDEED A MEGALITHIC STRUCTURE?
OLMEC COLOSSAL HEADS ARE OF MESOAMERICAN AND NON-AFRICAN ORIGIN
UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
February 9, 2020
• University archaeologists discard the theory that the oldest civilization in Mesoamerica has its roots in Africa
• They carried out 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 population’s founders and indigenous people of America
So they found random bodies and say they olmecs? Show us these remains please
Every race evolved from Africa
3:36 That persons phenotype does not look like that of the stone heads
So true , it was a terrible example
You are clearly right, and they don't have a good argument, either.
Black people see big lips and nose and think its them. Many people around the world have big lips and noses - its from living closer to the equator - you evolve as a result of your environment. Many indigenous people all over the americas have big lips and noses. Does not make them African.
Sure. This reminds me of learning how when racist historians and Egyptologists in awe of African civilizations decided to give the credit to blackskinned white people.@@hunab2081
@@hunab2081 But only one place had access to the Atlantic current that led directly to the east coast of Mexico and Central America, and that is West Africa. If the Olmecs had their origins in Asia, we'd find the heads on the WESTERN coast. We don't just see the big lips and noses. We also see the "Nubian war helmets." Google the images of the drawings.
People should be wondering why they wore the headgear.
No one is questioning the headgear !
Yes, their helmets are something very special. They look very technological to me. Such a great mistery.
To protect their heads & ears from the heavy rubber balls they played their famous games with.
They were famous players….????
Cauliflower ears don’t look good & are painful 😀
Google the words "Nubian war helmet" and see.
@@Fuzzmo147maybe , no 1 player is king
@@Freedom_iwant or treated like a god??….
I love these. As a designer I wonder if the original Tron movie took inspiration from the design of the helmets because they totally remind me of them. (But no I don’t think they were alien tech)
A lot of movies take their inspiration from history. Less so their story-lines.
@@bec5250 yes both really! But historical accuracy ain’t usually their thing that’s for sure
Those are really bicycle helmets. Which proves they invented bicycles.
@@two_tier_gary_rumain (◔_◔)
rubber helmets are perfect for ball games
Your talking about OLMECS but your showing AZTEC pictures.
What is your favorite artifact from Mesoamerica?
That is a hard one, I am always torn between some of the amazing gold "facemasks" and this wonderful little gem here: www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/c0jdgh/precolumbian_gold_chimu_culture_10001400ad_tumi/
@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 That's pretty cool looking!
Mexico,so full of history! So much to discover! Fascinating!!
Too many to name but the quetzal head regalia in austria and the gold turquoise step and fret chimalli are at the fore of my mind. Olmec heads are great, eccentric obsidian artifacts, jade masks... too many🐉
The gold ancient airplanes.
Great Q!
It’s uncommon to find those exact features in Mexico cause Mexicans are multiracial and climate with environment changes features over time, these people existed thousands of years ago ✌🏼
@Xavier Lekubarri false? You’re ignorant if you believe otherwise
@@gear14 En las comunidades indigenas de méxico y guatemala es normal encontrar ese tipo de rostros, son trompudos, con la nariz ancha y la cara redonda.
Joe Louis had the same headgear in 1939
The examples of people from Veracruz is kind of a bad example because many Mexicans from near Costa Chica had African ancestry from slavery although these Olmec head looks obviously Indigenous to me.
This comment section has made me a firm believer in the bell curve.
We know human beings are born explorers and travelers, and they relocate,looks like post tower of Babel dispersion, pyramids, ziguratts temples, building techniques, all so similar, iron Tye's to hold stones together, looks like they had one root.They put there own.culture spin on it, but similar.
At 3:21 you state that possible African contact is unfounded. Then as if for proof say the statues look like some folk still living in Veracruz.
Duh! Did you really do your homework on that one? Did you not know that Veracruz was one of the locations of heaviest Afro-Mexican population?
Better if you had just ignored the idea, than made stupid reference.
*Singing*.
La la la Bamba
They do this with all of history. Every aspect of the past history written by one culture has to be reevaluated in future times do to the extreme biases.
@@bobjones8949 Exactly. I oftentimes don't bother watching, as they don't try to educate but try insinuate wrong facts to fit into their narrative. Obviously there is an african influence in this olmec culture.
The man showed was an indigenous inhabitant of that region, i think that should have stayed clear even for the most obtuse person
Shitstorm Trooper the one thing that bothered me were the lip and somewhat nose of the current indigenous person they showed. It didn’t match the more pronounced look of the statue. I’m not saying they’re African and I’m not saying they’re not. Nobody can know for sure who the Europeans encountered when they arrived and I’m not taking anything they wrote down as factual.
Alex Gvtz the inhabitants today are probably related to the Olmecs but because of conquest and everything that goes along with that and migration mixture we don’t know how far removed they are.
Why u ppl never show the back of the heads? Hmm ..
What the feathers?
I always thought some of them looked more Polynesian, rather than African. They also bring to mind the tiki heads from Polynesia, as well.
Just stop it 🤣
way before that, this is mayan times when the pyramids and cities were being built
Take a look at 30s and 40s B/W photos of Islanders and see what they looked like.
They don’t look anything like the Easter island heads, which were made by Polynesians
Lmao
Hey y’all there is a doc on a undiscovered tribe in Indonesia that been secluded for 30k years . They kinda look like these heads .. check it out . I forgot the name .
Actor Robert Ri'chard looks like he is a descendant of the Olmec
I have also marvelled at giant stone heads in the admin office at work
They look African not native american
Then you have not seen many Native Americans. Not all Native Americans look the same.
Has anybody seen the difference between mayans and africans? Obviously not many people here. They are both dark skinned and broad but clearly different features. These look like mayans, not africans, well in this case olmecs.
"drilled into the stone (using reeds and wet sand)" < LOL
prob jade and jade dust with resin
Absolutely not...
Really enjoyed this documentary. The Heads are so mysterious. Hopefully in time other artifacts will be found shedding more light on the builders and culture. They look South Pacific to me. I believe ancients were more intelligent then us and were able to build boats to travel great distances.
If they had straight noses and slim lips you would have NO problem in claiming they were European, but even with the wide nose and big lips you think they are south Pacific?
You people can't help yourself 🤦🏿♂️
@@waynesimon1439 I actually think the original phoenicians were black. And I think it's them and the isrielites that got to America. And maybe some naitive Americans are descended from them. But who knows... It was all so long ago.. But I know they found a some phoenician texts in the amazon.
@Mama moo like Europeans have been stealing black culture for centuries?
Sorry I forgot that it was the Greeks who started civilisation and I keep forgetting that it was Europeans who discovered finally that the world wasn't flat, MY BAD.
@Mama moo most of you talk, walk and dress like your from the African American culture. Even steal our music, then you have the NERVE to say you have your own culture and that black people are trying to steal it😂😂😂
They're black
After this video, I feel so much more enlightened about these heads. Thank you, sir! We would know nothing without your brilliant scholarship.
I would love for someone to do a video comparing the La Venta Olmec heads to the giant stone heads of Monte Alto culture (Pre-Olmec) of Guatemala. Some archaeologists claim they are Olmec as well, but they predate the famous fine carved stone heads of LA Venta Olmec heads. The Monte Alto culture stone heads differ that they are crude, and look absolutely different. The Olmec heads of LA Venta have a negroid look with eyes wide open, and have like a sort of a cap/hat on their heads, but the Monte Alto heads are so different, they have a Asian looking features, eyes are shut in all giant stone heads, some of the heads have an adjoining body, no hat/cap on their heads, and archaeologists say those heads represent dead bodies. The Monte Alto culture Pre-Olmec heads have been dated to 2,000 BC about 600 years before the famous La Venta Olmec heads. There are many older sites along the Pacific coast line of mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador than the La Venta Olmec heartland in Tabasco Mexico.
Folks who are native Americans can look like that, without any recent or direct contact from Africa, there are no Artifacts, technology transfer, decease ,language transfer to be found.
However accidental contacts was probable, the reported voyages of Abubukari II of Mali was way too late in the day, and too close to the era of European contacts (200yrs) to ascribed the heads to them.. That's *"IF"* they made land fall at all.
Sculpted using hard stones ?, if that’s true they must have been incredible artists
This is not sculpture, it is petrified humans.
Native American history and legacy. 💯
Wow that was wonderful information… thank you!
Even if you found someone who looked exactly like one of these heads in this region, how EXACTLY does that disprove theories of other contacts?
It doesn't disprove them, it disproves the reason to BELIEVE that there was contact. The line of reasoning is that because no one nearby looks like the heads it must prove contact, but as the video states: they look like that.
@@InternetMameluqim from Mexico and but many people look like this. They are just trying to steal my history. Be prou of youre on history. Is not my fault that african Americans have identity crisis American is not center of the world we are the real natives. Viva Mexico 🇲🇽🙏
@@InternetMameluq That dosent make much sense because thats not even one of the main arguments thatreallyt and doesn't hold enough weight to be relevant enough to disprove anything on its own.
Original humans of the world!
" 'perhaps' - 'they MAY have' - 'it is THOUGHT' - 'maybe' - 'probably' ''
These words/phrases were ALL OVER this video,...NONE of these terms are definitive.
its just wondering out loud and filing it as fact.
Its ok to say we dont know.
The idea is to give no respect to the creators....Africans
@@djeio The idea,... is to not be committed to a pre-conceived notion to ensure you dont favour one set of information over another due to that bias.
'mights' and 'maybes' are not empirical fact.
History rarely fits within your preference.
@@stevehunt914 history shouldn't be preference your proving my point on europeans and their word games...they can speak definitively about things like "discovering" Human being on their continent like...the fuking arrogance of it all...and yet when it comes to easily verifiable info or at least very obvious scientific theories to be inferred based on circumstantial evidence about non euro people...it all becomes one big speculation of maybes what ifs. but when in doubt...actual scientists will say " you know what it think that gray frog people from the sky came down and made this thing that looks like a west african leaders and then just left"....this is what happens when your enemies teach history... one day when China takes over the world and starts teaching your great grand kids that china discovered america and that the statue of lincoln was an idol to your god and that he was actually that tall...then you'll understand...
Hey thanks for the character assassination/wildly inaccurate profiling and personal insults.
Your assumptions on what i think due to race were both hilarious and unfortunate.
They reveal a lot about how you think and operate with defensive race baiting.
NOTHING in your last message has ANYTHING to do with the subject,.. it was more a defensive racist manifesto littered with confusing fragments of illegitimate accusations.
I dont need black OR white people to be the originators of the Olmec heads/culture,.. i dont need it to be aliens,.. i dont need it to be a forgotten civilization.
I go where the information goes,.. and if the information changes,.. my opinions change with it.
You clearly NEED it to be black people (i never said it wasn't btw) so you're ONLY approving information that fits your SELECTED template.
Which,.... specifically illustrates my point in a way i could NEVER have done alone.
thanks for that.
(ps,.. i think we're done here.
obviously you'll carry on in some misguided defensive display,.. but i wont be engaging again, just so you know.)
good luck on your journey.
@@stevehunt914 didn't say you i meant the eurocentric pseudo science that goes into these theories...didn't mean for you to take it personally but as i said until your history is the one being erased and retold like its myth you wont get it
The one at 7:24 is stunning.
That's some remarkable skill.
All I'm saying is I'm mexican and I got big lips and a wide nose.
You don’t look like any of them statues 😂
@@Eastsidebarron Most Mexicans are Mixed. Doesn't mean features from his Indigenous side can't show.
@@youngarchivest9092 obviously , so what are his so called indigenous traits then ? Mexicans have the same hair texture as so called “Asians” the olmecs don’t look anything like Mexicans of today!
You're likely a carrier of West African DNA. Welcome to the family!👋👍
@@McQueenPressnope already told u all brown ppl inca mummy body was found with skin
These heads were not carved! They are poured stone. You can see myriad air bubbles throughout the entirety of the structures. Humans always look at making work easy not harder. As was the case with many other similar civilisations, the Olmec knew about geopolymers. Liquifying all manner of rocks, stones etc was common knowledge at the time. This knowledge is now lost. 😊
You are so far from the truth, as the East is from the West.
This wasn't pouring of anything, it is petrified humans.
Shocked ??? You should be because it doesn't fit into the realms of Academia.
They need to be honest with people about what took place.
Yes you are right ! In the museum of San Lorenzo, Tenochtitlan there is an unfinished giant head were we can see that the rock was almost liquid. The eyes can see but the mind may not accept ! Isnt it so ???
There were giants in the earth in those days and then they ran into Medusa. 🌚
Titans, Gorgons, Giants they were all real
Semitic fairytales
@@cv4809 Aryan fairy tales actually
@@tonytrismegistusroberts5124 still fairytales
@@cv4809 if that's what you want to believe you have fun just dont bore me with the official narrative crap and think that actually makes you clever.
Big lips, big nose with distinc cheekbones are uniquely African (black).
I was just thinking the exact same thing.Interesting to know - that
the knowledge propagated here in the western world;
appears to be lacking and limited.🤔🤔🤔
Squat heads too? Maybe they were pygmies.
Anti-Native American Ideology
I agree but African features are every human beings everybody comes from Africa. Britain cheddar man, long black hair blue eyes, Solomon Island, blonde hair, green, blue and gray eyes. Very dark perfect feature of south Sudan, Australia black, India Island black, original Asian blacks,North Africa, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Samaritan, South Pacific, Middle East.
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@Mama moo How would you describe them?
If US police they would shoot them.
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I notice that quite a few comments posit an African link to the Olmec heads. There are no descendants in the general population of the Yucatán peninsula and the Mexican gulf coast region? 2000 years isn't a long time, particularly in isolated/low contact parts of the world.
Mexicans with the highest percentages of African DNA admixture are found among populations who live today in Tres Zaportes, La Venta y San Lorenzo. Guess where Olmec ruins were found?
@@AfriasporaFilms guess where African slaves were brought to Mexico? Its western coast. Wow I wonder why. It's almost like thats the coast with the best access to Africa. Why is it that olmec remains show most similarity with modern native Americans and not Africans?
@@hairywiener9336 you're dying on this hill all over this comment section. You also keep positing that "Native American" is completely divorced from other people groups. The same way Indo-European populations can be thought of to be linked in a distant way to certain Asiatic populations (not just in the context of the Indo-European invasions) or Africans to Melanesians, where exactly do you think Native Americans come from? Just America? Like they're completely unrelated to other peoples? If not, do you mean to tell me that any and all Native American populations had to be descended from Siberians as seems to be the only accepted suggestion? You also keep inferring that they were *African* under these arguments being presented in the comments. They didn't necessarily have to have been Africans, *some* of these people may have had what is called a Negroid phenotype. Should I call Inuits Siberians? What about Cree, Cherokee, Navajo, Olmec, and Inca? Should I call them Siberians? If not then where did they originate from? I'm really curious to know what your logic is regarding this. I find a lot of the people putting up resistance to the idea of *Black* Indigenous Americans in these comments are reacting really emotionally. I'm not 100% that they were there but can we at least entertain the idea that people with a phenotype similar to Africans (OR South Pacific peoples) were here instead of taking up arms about it?
@@AfriasporaFilms LoL! Give it to 'em Bro!
@@hairywiener9336, wow! First, “There is no African DNA in Mexico.” Then when I say you’re a liar, there is in fact African DNA in Mexican populations. Now you say, “Of course, there’s African DNA in Mexico because everyone knows black people couldn’t have possibly gotten there on their own across the Atlantic Equatorial Gyres on boats we know that they had traveling on currents and winds that would take them from the coast of West Africa to the Americas whether they wanted to go there or not, unless white people transported them unwillingly as captive slaves. Because everyone knows black Africans can’t move out of Africa unless white people move them.” Did I miss anything?
Fantastic video!
So incredibly fascinating
Yes. Agreed
What color was they painted.
1) Mexico had enslaved people from Africa (some of my ancestors came from there). Prince Yanga was a hero that freed many slaves in Mexico. They also came with the Spanish. I know that's way after the Olmecs but I'm tired of always hearing Mexicans talk about some of them having those features. If that's the case why don't some of the heads have thin lips? You all just put Afro-Mexicans on your census in 2015.
2) the oldest corpse ever found in the Americas was a black woman.
3) They say that these things were created around 900 BC. That's a really long time ago and no one knows who was here back then.
4) the Bible mentions corn a lot. It starts in Genesis and keeps going. I'm sure many are going to say it's a wrong translation and don't know anything about biblical study but it says corn now. All of the scholars agree that corn started in Mexico from a grass called teosinte. Why is it mentioned so early in the Bible if there wasn't early travel between the continents?
5) Word of the Americas had been passed to the king of the Mali empire Abubakar II by other African travelers and scholars before any European ever set foot here. Africans knew of the Atlantic Ocean currents that got them here 12 days faster than any European - they called them rivers in the ocean. We know that they made it here bc there are African gourd plants and spear tips made of guanine (an alloy made up of gold, silver, and copper). There are even frescoes of black people helping to fight against naked white invaders.
I think I speak for most black people when I say I don't want your culture. Even when people find something in Africa they hate to believe we can create anything. I don't know the race of the Olmec heads but I know that they were all facing east. Who is to say that it wasn't bc that's where these people came from? We don't know, I just don't get how you people can speak so matter-of-factly when it concerns our involvement in anything productive. We speak so loudly about antiquity bc we can study now too and we know more about ourselves now beyond just being enslaved people. We probably had a good relationship with the ancient indigenous people of that region. I have ancestry from both of those places and I've been called some nasty things by Mexicans. None of us knows the ancestry of these people, they didn't place DNA on these stone pieces so we can't say for sure what is unfounded.
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Agree with you. Thank you for for this information. I recently saw a documentary about the little known black Mexicans. Most were now living in very remote areas of Mexico away from the cities. Some were of mixed heritage as are most descendants of African slaves.
It is a mystery as to who actually created the Olmec heads but it is possible the Olmecs consisted of more than one racial group.
There’s 17 heads
And other artifacts look them up
Mexico still have tribes and yes they do have thick lips and wide noses
@@Fleecejonhson Have they done DNA studies on those people? Do you know that they found cocaine in the remains of mummies? Cocaine was thought to have been around for thousands of years and it was first used by South Americans until Europeans began to colonize the world. Do you know how many Egyptian artifacts have been found in the Americas? Columbus wrote about seeing black people in the West in his journal. He is the one that found the African spear tip and took it to Europe to be examined. It's difficult to change what you've always known but truth should always be the most important thing. Many of you don't want to do research because then you have to change your way of thinking. Black people are not stupid, our history has been stolen from us and many of us just want to know more about ourselves. Hopefully, by doing that we can overcome ignorance and be more productive with our time. We don't want to be Inca or take your history, we just think it's cool that we may have things in common despite what we were taught.
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When the black rulers fell in disrepute they were killed? Many people feel that blacks came to this place and then were killed once the locals thought realized they were human.
That dude does not look like that Olmec head sorry.
They could be boxers, ballgame players, or what I learned at UCLA “in transformation into a Jaguar”…so they are skinwalkers.
It seems quite a stretch to so casually and dismissively claim that _"Although the physionomy of the sculptures has given rise to _*_'unfounded speculation'_*_ of contact with civilizations from Africa, in fact the physical features common to the heads _*_'are still seen today in residence of the modern Mexican cities'_*_ of Tabasco and Veracruz."_ . The features appear SO distinctive, that it is more likely (for whatever reason) that the ANCIENT peoples of that region looked SIGNIFICANTLY different than the undoubtedly "racially compromised" peoples that currently occupy the area today. No need to necessarily evoke an "African connection", but also no need to ignore the obvious and well-known phenotypic effect of centuries of *European* colonization, conquest and even genocide. Politics need have no place in historical analyses.
Yea this guy's 'scholarship" is fourth rate. It is funny that he basically denies the existence of blacks before slavery
I thought the same thing how easily he dismisses this possibility seems like a bias
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The Amazon tribes look like these heads ..I think the Olmec went south and now live in the Amazon forest
The Amazon is huge they’re probably deep in there
@@Fleecejonhson they are actually my ancestors. Every black person born in the Americas are there descendants.
How do they come up with this dates 🤔
Carbon dating
An alien informant no doubt.
If you believe they were made by hard hammer stones you’re off your rocker, pun intended.
You can carve stone with granite hammers, though. It's not that difficult; you only need to know how to use your strength and the materials you dispose of.
They somehow used levitation power.
3:29 that guy looks nothing like the statues. 😄
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I believe Mexico has always been like a mirage in the middle of a old world where ancient cultures Asia Africa Europe heard and searched for I believe all the bravest tribes of the world sailed the sea to trade these plains
Omec is what the Aztec called them. No one knows what they called themselves. And the stones are not carved, the Omec knew how to create cement, like the Inca
with only a look I can tell that is sedimentary rock. Stop it.
@Elliot Roca, and knew that because you've watched 2-3 videos of olmecs in youtube?
You think youre better than those who actually studied , worked , researched these types of ancient history.
@@unexpectedb2641 no my family owns one of their statutes. My family was president of one of the countries they’re found in
@@elliottroca stop the lies
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When will someone ask about tbe headgear ?
Olmecs and Africans are 2 totally different people. Just putting that out there for those afrocentrists out there.
Yeah, dynastic Egyptians were white with dark skins 😂😂😂😂
Stop the nonsense, These people are the Ancient Twa from africa long before any other race even showed up. EL NEGRO
@@dwaynebrowning9564 You wish
Ever human being have African decentants
i wonder if the heads n peoples have any connection to the worship that when on in Canaan where in cut off heads of a relative was place in ones living quarters?
If it looks black ,talks black ,walks black ,sounds black,…. it’s Swedish
Lol. Good one 😅🤣😅
They don't look, walk, talk, sound black.
Then what do the giant Omlac heads walk and talk like ?…Martinez ….Wait ..let me guess….. Spanish…🤣🤣🤣
@@bennybobbieboogie You have a fetish for Spaniards and white supremacists. Olmecs weren't black (if by black we mean African American)
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I like to listen to those who explain these Stone Heads when they weren’t in this land.
Why are there more of these Shone Heads with the todays Mexicans still crafting these Heads of their Ancestors.
? How many of these heads are there. Then the stones can be explained, if there’s 12 then I know the answer, if less then the rest needs to be found.
There’s 17 I think
There’s also other artifacts besides these giant heads
The majority of the heads appear to be the same person. I believe the older more "squat" type versions are the same person but at an older age. Maybe he moved to the tother city in old age. Cool video!
Am I subjectively importing a depiction of dwarfism into these sculpted megaliths, or do others "see" this, as well?
why people always assume ancients used primitive tools, even 4 transportation?? with the same breath, they say they picked/brought the best stone 2 use 4 their statues/megalithic structures.
because this is propaganda
Lol no one mentions about how their canoes are made from a wood only found in West Africa and that their crowns(head dresses) are specifically from the ancient Nok culture of central Saharan Africa i.e. Nigeria, Niger
I don’t get what was “explained” here. More like “recounted” what is well-known already.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/explain
Definition b: to make plain and understandable.
I don't understand what ur confused about.
@@theonlygoodlookinghabsburg2081 Sure, if you want to be that technical about it. In a more general sense, most people think of “explain” in context of new information that clears up an existing mystery.
@@BrianelSuperMacho Not really, when I hear the word "explain" I associate it with.. explaining and even 101 stuf. You can claim that for the majority of people it's not the case and I can claim the contrary, but noone has evidence as to what most people think when they see the word. Which means all we're left with is the technical definition; and as far as that is concerned, the title isn't misleading in the slightest.
@@theonlygoodlookinghabsburg2081 fair enough. I still prefer my take. 😜
@@BrianelSuperMacho your take is dumb
Whoa...not trying to be funny but i was instantly reminded of Fresh from the podcast with Myron.
Reeds and wet sand drilling?!… INTO BASALT??!! Come on!
They still don’t totally believe the Egyptians built the pyramids.
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What is the ancient handbag found on being held by figures on ancient carvings around the world?
Ummmm....its a bag! They are used to carry things, in fact they are still used to this very day to...carry things!
Ancient humans definitely needed their bag, basket or urn.
They called man bags.
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Ummm, it would have been better if you just said "honestly, I don't know" !
You're wrong
4:50 is clearly a scene from holy family from egypt.
Rubber trees come from (Africa,) how do you think they got there
No rubber trees do not come from Africa. There are native species of rubber trees found in the Americas and other parts of the world.
Según tu lógica entonces eran chinos porque hay muchas variedades de bambú en México........😂
What I learnt from this video: Mount Rushmore only shows heads which is proof that the makers believed the thoughts and emotions are only in the head. (Giant sigh.)
This is the white version try the real version
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They were defaced and buried, exactly like was done in Egypt. To forget or disguise who they really were.
They look far more like South Pacific rather than African. Those are perfect Samoan faces.
Lips are extremely thick, like George Floyd's. Strong African influence. Noses are really wide like T.D. Jakes. They certainly have Africa dna and perhaps Asian.
@TRUTH CENSORED It's your personal, racist opinion that there are no civilizations in Africa. It's also your very ignorant opinion.
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Samoans were African looking before miscegenation.
I would honestly want someone to cover where it is they came from. That’s what I’m mainly interested in.
If you know the people from this area ,, They are descendants of African people who we're their Long ago...In the hopi creation story they are mention....Refered to as the black bird..who came to save the people.... They mix with the people long ago...
Not according to the olmecs 😊
Never show the back of the stone
Braids!!!!!
Anti-Native American ideology.
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Feathers not braids😂
'Big Heads'? They must have been the 'important' politicians of their day. Some things just never seem to change....
There's been a lot of debate surrounding the African looking features. But could they actually be Melanesian looking features? Island people who have a history of navigating the seas for thousands of years...it makes sense that they could have reached the "new world" long ago. If their ancient ancestors could make it thousands of miles from the motherland to Fiji and Solomon Islands, why couldn't they have reached Central America as well?
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Why u trying so hard to push aside black excellence? Where not talking about Melanesians white man for God sakes!!! Leave us alone... God is about to judge u white man!
@@klahyisrael7019 I'm an African... from the source of black excellence
Because DNA from olmec skulls says the Olmecs were Native American.
@@klahyisrael7019 lol - because olmecs are far from African.
Check out Ivan Van Sertima he wrote a book on this with all supporting evidence
Ivan Van Sertima is not a credible source. He has been debunked many times. He has no evidence, only speculation to support his ethno centric conspiracy theories.
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I won't be quick to point out that they resemble African even though I'd be stating the obvious but Why does the helmets on the heads seriously resembles that of the Mali empire.....
These heads do resemble African, but the DNA of today's Olmec descendants have Native American DNA that traces back to northern Asian populations. After thousands of years of being disconnected from Asia human evolution changes. Though these changes are subtle.
@@tonysandoval5819 There is no such evidence. These are West African phenotypes and headgear. Benin, Gahanna and Nok cultures. Show me the literature to support this "DNA" study? Where did they find the bodies? The Olmecs/Rubber people brought rubber from Ghanna
There are cornrolls on the heads of the stone too.
@Etruscans civilization Exactly. I caught that biased intro in this video. I noticed he does not mention anything about the braids or evidence of mende scripts found with the Olmec civilasation. They always trying to deny black history. Its getting very ridiculous at this point, especially with so many research and evidence that prove otherwise.
@@sedwillfuli studied mesoamerican history for eight years and there’s no such evidence supporting your so-called evidence. however there were actual remains of bodies at these same exact sites and the DNA, not to mention the overall phenotype of indigenous mexicans today, couldn’t be more contrarian to this racist fantasy of yours. photoshopped illusions of nonexistent features and theoretical papers written by racist crackpots don’t count as evidence. DNA as a physical and biological marker linking amerindians to east asians - basically evidence of the very human phenomena of transcontinental migration - doesn’t require your belief in it to exist. but since you’re such a dedicated scholar of the matter, i highly suggest you go to central mexico yourself and look at the statues and remains found there and see what i mean. if that doesn’t help you, then there is no difference between folks like you and racists who still attributed stone buildings in africa as evidence of europeans!