The agenda behind this is to bolster their case that they could not have been models for any of the Olmec stone heads. To say that these are narrow noses is to exhibit a colossal ignorance of African types in ancient Egypt and Nubia.

173 Taharka as the god Amun from Kawa Temples, Plate 9, p. 10 and 12 of the JAC and major Nubian pharaohs in Peggy Bertram’s essay (JAC, Vol. As for Egypto-Nubians only having narrow noses, see Egyptian pharaohs in Vol. All the six main variants of the African have been found in Egyptian and Nubian graves.įor examples of ancient braided Nubian hair, see Frank Snowden’s Before Color Prejudice. My critics know nothing about the variants of Africa, ancient or modern. We can see this among the elongated and Nilotic types. THE TRUTH: Narrow noses have been found among millions of pure-blooded Africans.

This style comes from colonial and modern Ethiopia.” “They have long, narrow noses, Short, flat noses are confined to the West African ancestors of African-Americans.” Again, “There is no evidence that ancient Nubians ever braided their hair.

– LIE TWO: None of the early Egyptians and Nubians looked like Negroes. “I cannot subscribe to the notion that civilization suddenly dropped onto the American earth from the Egyptian heaven.” 147 of They Came Before Columbus, see also Journal of African Civilizations, Vol. “I think it is necessary to make it clear – since partisan and ethnocentric scholarship seems to be the order of the day – that the emergence of the Negroid face, which the archeological and cultural data overwhelmingly confirm, in no way presupposes the lack of a native originality, the absence of other influences or the automatic eclipse of other faces”-p. I said they made contact and all significant contact between two peoples lead to influences. I never said that Africans created or founded American civilization. – THE TRUTH: As far back as 1976, I made my position on this matter very clear. – De Montellano, Barbour and Haslip-Viera. These individuals created Olmec civilization”. – LIE ONE:- “Van Sertima’s expedition allegedly sailed or drifted westward to the Gulf of Mexico where it came in contact with inferior Olmecs. and circa 800 B.C.), in addition to the Mandingo contact period (1310/1311 A.D.).Īs a reply to the disinformation being circulated about his work, Van Sertima gives the following: Some have attacked scholar Ivan Van Sertima’s thesis that Africans made contact with America before Columbus in two major pre-Christian periods (circa 12OO B.C.

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