Message #3976

[Brooke]

Thanks for checking for me, Zaphod, I'll do some checking myself.  I sort of doubt that they will take anything but the traditional view, but I am interested in what they say!

Of course the easy answer is nothing is as it seems; but the problem with that is these statues are mocking the Archaeology magazine people and they can't even see it...or maybe they do but that it isn't cool, yet, to talk about this in a scholarly manner, or at least on a sustained level.

I whole-heartedly agree with that, Andrew, the statues are clearly African-American and here the archaologoical community is tripping over themselves trying to explain them away!

It might also interest you to know that most of the giant heads were moved from their original locations - the first rule of archaeology is to examine something in it's native soil, taking in the context and looking for other artifacts that might also belong to an ancient people.  The Olmecs have been treated as an afterthought almost since their discovery - some very sloppy acrchaeological work involved in all this!

Brooke