The History and Culture of Olmec Civilization

The Olmec civilization, located in ancient Mexico, prospered in Pre-Classical (Formative) Mesoamerica from c. 1200 BCE to c. 400 BCE. Monumental sacred complexes, massive stone sculptures, ball games, the drinking of chocolate, and animal gods were all features of Olmec culture passed on to those peoples who followed this first great Mesoamerican civilization.
With their heartlands in the Gulf of Mexico (now the states of Veracruz and Tabasco), Olmec influence and trade activity spread from 1200 BCE, even reaching as far south as present-day Nicaragua. Many Olmec sites suffered systematic and deliberate destruction of their monuments sometime between 400 and 300 BCE.
The Olmec civilization presents something of a mystery, indeed, we do not even know what they called themselves, as Olmec was their Aztec name and meant 'rubber people'. Due to a lack of archaeological evidence their ethnic origins and the location and extent of many of their settlements are not known. The Olmecs did, however, codify and record their gods and religious practices using symbols. The precise significance of this record is much debated but, at the very least, its complexity does suggest some sort of organised religion involving a priesthood. The Olmec religious practices of sacrifice, cave rituals, pilgrimages, offerings, ball-courts, pyramids and a seeming awe of mirrors, was also passed on to all subsequent civilizations in Mesoamerica until the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century CE.
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[@cesardaz3962]

I’m from the heart of the Olmec sites in Veracruz we all have full lips wide noses and defined skull structure aka “big heads”. Yet there is not one black person in our villages. Nothing against the African culture but this was definitely a separate civilization. The kids in our villages still make toys out of natural rubber and the heads are still in our village.

[@McQueenPress]

Very likely, descendants of West Africans and carriers of African DNA. The Atlantic current from West Africa lands at Central America. Documentation exists proving means, knowledge, motive, capability. Welcome to the family!

[@nightbling8905]

They try to take every culture bro…

[@loskoasttv1234]

BULLSHIT AFRICAN WERE IN THE AMERICAS BEFORE THERE WAS EVEN A SUCH THING AS A MEXICAN...AND AS A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION MEXICO SENT ONE OF THE HEADS BACK TO ETHIOPIA...

[@loskoasttv1234]

@@nightbling8905 Do REAL Research and you will see....you seem like a hater to me 😂 Don't hate Blame GOD👃

[@stevennunez6013]

Dude the main reason Africa will always be poor is because only 12% of the continent is coast line only 3 major rivers that go to the ocean that’s why the continent is the way it is trade is not easy especially in ancient times access to the mainland Africa is very restricted even today due to geography There’s no history of any sub-Saharan African being voyagers

[@C_Cpuffs]

I can’t imagine the excitement those men and women felt discovering and uncovering these monuments!

[@colinchampollion4420]

It was all men😉

[@TheLacedaemonian300]

Of all the cultures of the ancient Americas, the Olmec civilization was truly the most brilliant in all its artistic renderings. As the Bronze Age collapse was occurring around the Mediterranean, the Olmecs were forging a new civilization unlike anything ever seen to that point, all the way on the other side of the world. Oh to have a time machine!

[@richardwhite6062]

Bronze age had been collapsed for 200 years. Its quite possible they are refugees.

[@ManuelMartinez-bi8cb]

@@richardwhite6062 from where the levant??

[@richardwhite6062]

@@ManuelMartinez-bi8cb From the mediterranean in general. Its pretty fascinating how similar their origin myths are to the biblical version.

[@felonymelody4773]

@@richardwhite6062 Hasn’t it been proven that the first humans to arrive in America were migrating over from Asia through Alaska like 11000 years ago? And some migrated from Polynesia later on?

[@richardwhite6062]

@@felonymelody4773 definitely not Proven. Just leading theories

[@pabloalvez915]

Excellent video! I've always been fascinated by the Mesoamerican cultures.

[@coquireport]

In 1997 academics in a Journal of Current Anthropology article criticised in detail many elements of They Came Before Columbus (1976).] Except for a brief mention, the book had not previously been reviewed in an academic journal. The researchers wrote a systematic rebuttal of Van Sertima's claims, stating that Van Sertima's "proposal was without foundation" in claiming African diffusion as responsible for prehistoric Olmec culture (in present-day Mexico). They noted that no "genuine African artifact had been found in a controlled archaeological excavation in the New World." They noted that Olmec stone heads were carved hundreds of years prior to the claimed contact and only superficially appear to be African; the Nubians whom Van Sertima had claimed as their originators do not resemble these "portraits".[5] They further noted that in the 1980s, Van Sertima had changed his timeline of African influence, suggesting that Africans made their way to the New World in the 10th century B.C., to account for more recent independent scholarship in the dating of Olmec culture They further called "fallacious" his claims that Africans had diffused the practices of pyramid building and mummification, and noted the independent rise of these in the Americas. Additionally, they wrote that Van Sertima "diminishe[d] the real achievements of Native American culture" by his claims of African origin for them.

[@ericvulgate]

The only way to 'pump' africans is to diminish everyone else.

[@donatist59]

Van Sertima has the same academic credentials as The Book of Mormon.

[@BanneroftheSun]

@@donatist59 haha

[@UCMICU]

You really need to update this video. We have made huge archeological discoveries in 2019-2023 about the Olmec civilizations

[@vegassincity702]

Links??

[@ironsharkz]

Stepped into this for an assignment, expecting to be bored i think i have my new favorite subject

[@Jason-ms8bv]

I imagine there's so much we'll never know about this mysterious civilization, but what we do know is spectacular! Another fabulous presentation SAMA, I love how you keep covering the little known, under represented and the tough subjects.

[@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject]

I did a concise video on the Olmec people. Some people had some opposing views. But I don't think anything is really a definitive conclusions yet. It is still awesome to wonder and hear all the different perspectives though.

[@frisco9568]

@@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject send me a link please

[@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject]

@@frisco9568 link to what?

[@frisco9568]

@@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject To your video about the Olmecs

[@historysmysteriesunveiled8043]

The Cushites 💯💎

[@elvirasilva38]

A lot of ignorants want todo tell as that we are blacks most of our people are from Veracruz my grandpa have dose feature not that i have any think against blacks but let’s look at the true 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

[@nigelstanford4]

Olmecs were clearly black.

[@adolforuiz6031]

As of 2018, mitochondrial DNA study carried out on Olmec remains, one from San Lorenzo and the other from Loma del Zapote, resulted, in both cases, in the “unequivocal presence of the distinctive mutations of the “A” maternal lineage. That is, the origin of the Olmecs is not in Africa but in America, since they share the most abundant of the five mitochondrial haplogroups characteristic of the indigenous populations of our continent: A, B, C, D and X.”💯🧬🧬🧬🧬

[@jimmiehernandez5625]

Thanks you for sharing these video a lot black people trying to claim them

[@denise3422]

@@jimmiehernandez5625 Black people covered the entire planet before any other people our features are distinctive unlike any other group. Yes we were here on this land before Columbus get over it.

[@jimmiehernandez5625]

@denise3422 keeping watching 👀 tiktok and social media not accepting mexican made the pyramid no accepting it we humble people made pyramid

[@jimmiehernandez5625]

@denise3422 it the truth no black were here. Stop it were the original of America the Native

[@cityofangelsdriven7179]

@@denise3422 Damn, stop begging to be us. Sorry,but Africa is your mother land.

[@MilesBellas]

ETHNICITY "in the 1940s, the artist/art historian Miguel Covarrubias published a series of photos of Olmec artworks and of the faces of modern Mexican Indians with very similar facial characteristics."

[@secondtonone5197]

There's no such thing as a Mexican Indian! Mexican are Spaniards that was apart of the Spanish colonies who invaded the original people on that land! I'm very sure that Christopher and his conquistadors didn't load no 20 ton stone head and brought to America from Spain!

[@secondtonone5197]

And the crazy part is, they fleeing from their so called culture just run over where the negro at! So I guess in another hundred Mexicans will claim themselves to been black slaves!

[@MilesBellas]

@@secondtonone5197 Meaningless. . Information via Wikipedia

[@secondtonone5197]

@@MilesBellas prove it!!!

[@JacobDostres]

@@secondtonone5197 You sounds stupid Mexican is a nationality and not a race. The first Mexicans were the Mexica people who lived in Tenochtitlán. Negros aren’t the original people they have no ancestral languages or cultures. Dna 🧬 proved that the olmecs aren’t African people. And just because they aren’t white it doesn’t mean they are black. It’s not a white and black world so quit your bs Afrocentric. You guys are west Africa negroids that were captor and sold I’m the slave trade. Quit. Being a culture vulture you have no proof.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

One of the greatest civilisations in history 😍

[@jokerbeats5479]

the incas and aztec encounter the annunaki sumeryans there is tablet found in cave in bolivia by father crespy the golden tablet book in sumeryans cuneyform sanskritic aramaic written

[@indigenoustoamerica4280]

@@jokerbeats5479 No they did not. quit spreading your black misinformation.There is no such a thing as "annunaki"

[@luisselby7041]

Annunaki is totally fake...

[@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject]

@@indigenoustoamerica4280 why do some people believe it then? Sometimes it's hard to find empirical data that gives a definitive answer.

[@teresafernandez9849]

Only the wannabe cullture vulture believes that BS!!

[@daya820]

Great video, very well narrated and I loved the music and content. Thank you!

[@p.pinchelette2909]

Amazing Olmec piece. Can you do one on the Tarascans/Purepecha people? I find they're usually ignored but their history is very rich.

[@Kalleosini]

Thank you for this piece.

[@homeschooldaily9948]

👊 Good video. I enjoyed it very much and it was very helpful.

[@youngimperialistmkii]

Thx for this vid. I knew little of the Olmec civilization. I had no idea how influential it was on later cultures.

[@Fritz999]

In reality, nobody truly knows sufficient facts of the Olmecs of that even was, what they called themselves. And yes, there was much great development in middle and South America. I would be proud to be of indigenous descent.

[@gaylewilliams4805]

Deeply fascinating!

[@wheresmyeyebrow1608]

Thank you for your content!

[@nataliemanzo34]

Love my Mexican culture. Specially my native side

[@secondtonone5197]

Hahaha stop the foolishness! Mexican are Spaniards that was apart of the Spanish colonies! So they only been in existence for several hundred years! So I guess these conquistadors shipped these stone from Spain to Central America!! Be

[@nigelstanford4]

They were black.

[@nataliemanzo34]

@@nigelstanford4 u wish

[@bosse641]

Very interesting culture and people.

[@josephconsoli4128]

The most fascinating thing to me is the sheer size of things that these ancient cultures made. They knew it had to last eons for some reason. It would've been so much easier to make simpler things that provided what they needed, but instead they toiled to make something that would outlive them by tremendous amounts of time. I think it's so easy to see that this planet has seen an endless morphing of beings for longer than we can imagine. Civilizations that rose to great levels and then wiped out, over and over again. Each time, that knowledge lost and everything starting from a primitive form. What we see is just what's left. I believe it goes back much, much further than we can imagine. It's like this earth is a playing field for life. They come and they go.

[@ChrisDaVillian]

They knew alchemy, they knew how to bind things together, geopolymers

[@josephconsoli4128]

@@ChrisDaVillian Fascinating. I feel that although these species may have been wearing toga's and walking in sandals, they could've have possessed an innate ability to understand and work with the laws of nature. We assume hi-tech devices are needed, but I feel these ancient beings were above that.

[@Fritz999]

Bravo!!! That has been my position for a long time.

[@josephconsoli4128]

@@Fritz999 Right? It's so obvious. Under our feet is layers and layers of once bustling cities, billions of life forms, lost technologies, etc. Like on a farm, the planet rototills its surface, and the seeds are planted once again.

[@jks3rd]

Thank you for this, very interesting.

[@garyheiden3120]

amazing sculptures.

[@gianni-1682]

Nice ambience to this one 👍

[@MrPurepecha87]

The religion known today is Toltec wisdom, it has to do with a reflection which is a Mirror, also with actual dreams, basically the belief is that we all have a spirit animal, depending your date of birth & the animal you fall in line with, you may have heard of Huehueteotl, it is the old fire basically its The Lord Feminine and masculine that created four Cardinal directions which is known as the Tezcatlipoca’s the Smoking Mirror.

[@Sahistoryyy]

Great video . Very informative and great music 😀😊

[@susytomable]

Thank you.

[@mantrekki]

In Mexico the Olmecs are known as the “mother civilization”.

[@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject]

Why not grandfather, and all the rest are children that learn from them. Or were they the same people? Haha

[@teresafernandez9849]

@@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject You mean the Toltecs! U don't know shit!!

[@sheenskywalker4708]

Yea Africans.

[@teresafernandez9849]

@@sheenskywalker4708 culture vultures, wannabe!

[@gandjgomezfamily5701]

Africans nah native Americans

[@nosferatuoddz7974]

Afrocentrists coming out in full force in the comments section

[@christianmyhre7154]

Good video

[@sorrowcat2724]

I saw an Olmec head today, to be more specific- Olmec Head #6. It’s at Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut. I’m jumping down this rabbit hole just because of how darn cool that Olmec head was in person.

[@subhamomm5930]

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[@MilanTheMan69]

...joined 8 months ago. 😄

[@scotchleaf]

Check out "Fall of Civilizations" also

[@jokerbeats5479]

skanderberg was turcic albanians is grew up in ottomans empires

[@MilanTheMan69]

Grew up in Serbian orthodox family. Before he became Turkic vassal. His father and brother are buried in orthodox temple Hillandar at the time he was Turkic vassal. If he died at moment, he would die as Serbian/Turkic vassal. But he was successfull military commander, that later become father of Albania. Before Ottoman invason Serbs and Albanians lived in peace. Since that changed in last few centuries, history facts about Skenderbeg was changed too. Albanian historians knows this like Ardijan Klosi, but others are unwillingly to admit that.

[@jokerbeats5479]

@@MilanTheMan69 was not vassal was part of ottoman empires and skanderberg maybe want to not by part of ottomans is fought against ottomans , like vlad impalers stephen the great of moldavia from romania not from russia

[@alexanderm8880]

Could Jaguar Babies have been those children born with cleft palates? If the Jaguar and Were-jaguar were revered then a child born with physical qualities similar to those entities might be deemed significant.

[@TonyfromTO]

Thats what some experts think

[@Congac_Black]

🤣🤣 that sounds ridiculous, no matter what their ethnicity.... Africans were their Gods.

[@R.Es1]

And the wabo enters the room with his stupidity

[@bullterror5]

Usually humans with animal heads depict gods

[@teresafernandez9849]

@@Congac_Black We don't have Africa Gods, u rediculous wannabe interloping intrusive menacing culture vultures, need to read a book on non Afro genetic groups!! We, the "real" BROWN people of the Americas, r classified as a non Afro genetic group. Read a book, u came with the white man on ships! It is one of the most documented things in mezo america!! ALL Ancient ppl leave footprints! No DNA, no oral or written history no language no tribe no spiritual connection to other tribes!! Get over it!! U ain't Native and we ain't Afro! Ur culture vultures r the menacing laughing stock of the world!!

[@rodrigobarajas647]

Great video, and the pronunciation of the names is spot on

[@rafaelramos1485]

Thanks 🙏

[@thinkinaboutpolitics]

Could the burying of the heads be an act of forgetting rather than remembering? The changing of the political guard or something of the sort.

[@Cali-ssippian]

It was definitely someone who was NOT an Olmec at the given time....alot to think about... OLMEC XI

[@teresafernandez9849]

The whole world buried things that were meaningful!! They knew the end was coming, there is evidence of this all over the world!!

[@ezzovonachalm7534]

Will You soon make a video on the Pastèque's civilisation ?

[@mrvn000]

Is a joke??

[@Jeff1234jaka]

wow i learned so many things

[@SoccerloverAMB]

nice

[@rce6411]

Viva Mexico

[@Eric-zc5vt]

Please stay there.. please

[@rce6411]

@@Eric-zc5vt see you mad cause the olmecs were MY ancestors. Not yours. Your ancestors didn’t contribute anything signifcant to society

[@urbnctrl]

I am so happy that there are finally alternative providers of intelligence about these subjects that operate freely from a Eurocentric framework and worldview. After all there are still so many LIVING cultures and civilizations that simply changed their identity to obscure from European terrorism yet hold actual accounts and truth about their own past. It would be almost amusing to see European scholars break their heads over things so obvious to indigenous peoples, if it was not so sad. To see them fantasize and make up fairytales about their interpretation of the truth. Let's keep these people in the dark this time, the rennaisance of enlightening should be kept to ourselves this time as we have seen what happens with it in the corrupted hands.

[@JungleJargon]

Ancient history is essential for everyone to know, especially the sixteen original civilizations. 1. The first inhabitants of Italy (K) 2. Thracians (L) 3. Siberians (N) 4. East Assists (O) 5. Medes (PQ) 6.. Western Europeans (R) 7. Mediterranean Greek sea people (T) 8. Hebrews and Arabic (IJ) 9. Elamites (H) 10. Assyrians (G) 11. Arameans (F1) 12. Lydians (F2) 13. Cushites (AB, C & D) 14. Egyptians (E3) 15. Canaanites (E2) 16. Original North African Phoenicians (E1) The D haplogroup of Canaan migrated east through Tibet all the way to Japan. The C haplogroup of Nimrod migrated to South Asia, the Pacific, Mongolia and all the way to the Americas along with Q haplogroup descendants of Madai ancestor of the Medes. The A maternal mtDNA haplogroup belonging to the N lineage accompanied the Q paternal haplogroup. The C&D maternal haplogroups belong to the M lineage. The B maternal haplogroup seems to have crossed the Pacific Ocean. The Mediterranean paternal R1b and the maternal X2a also found in Galilee represent an Atlantic crossing of the Phoenicians in the days of King Solomon considering also the Mediterranean paternal haplogroups of T, G, I1, I2, J1, J2, E and B in addition to the R1b in Native American Populations.

[@jalapenoandbanana]

Dang this is amazing

[@TheDeadlyDan]

Why four cardinal directions? I understand why we think of it this way, but why do we assume ancient civilizations also interpreted our world like this? Most ancient civilizations had at least five cardinal directions as they included "center", with many having far more. Why is North always up, and South always down? Generally the basis given for directional differentiation would be wind or sun. Is Mr. Cartwright making assumptions based on Maya culture or is there actual evidence for this interpretation from the Olmec? The Maya use five directions by the way, East-West-Up-Down-Center. How was this interpreted as east west north and south? Is that how they actually viewed the world? And . . . there we go again with the 'first' claims. Earliest known is not first until evidence is provided. We're beginning to see that people were in South America tens of millenia prior to what accadamia currently accepts. One cannot determine what's first unless one knows the entirety - and we only know six thousand years or so out of the hundreds of thousands we've been around. Great presentation, and I appreciate how you bring these articles to life through video. Keep em coming.

[@LuisVillalobosYT]

I was just thinking this. Also they always say the olmecs were first and they had trading routes… um with who were they trading then? Lol

[@shaolin1derpalm]

I read a paper somewhere recently that the culture of Olmecs has its roots further south .

[@shaolin1derpalm]

I don't know about academia not accepting it. I learn from academic studies about the furthering of the timeline all the time.

[@TheDeadlyDan]

@@shaolin1derpalm You're talking about specific academics, not the institutions responsible for the lore of the profession.

[@shaolin1derpalm]

@@TheDeadlyDan I honestly don't believe in modern Institutions suppressing such information as it becomes available with hard evidence. People get into these fields to be the one to make the big discovery, not to keep the status quo.

[@ThreeFifteenAM92]

They actually just spread all over Mexico. The gulf in particular

[@gopidevi-meditacionytransm3142]

Very interesting. I think they were kind and good

[@FunkyPyramid]

hey bro im shaman and artist love yur work can you share me the name of the music tyou used for the video cool music for meditation ?

[@Bux876]

Now i understand where Oda is goin with one piece

[@jorchimaru]

😂😂😂 I thought the same

[@nozrep]

so cool. And I realize no actual evidence is maybe established as to where they came from, and I certainly am just your regular bachelor’s degree joe; but anyways I had the thought that some of the sculptures sort of resembled, like, ancient Japanese or ancient Chinese types of stuff also. Quite fascinating.

[@facade538]

They were Native American, DNA has proven this. Look up Professor Ann Cypher and Olmec DNA. I don't know why this creator of this video didn't find this.

[@11mazatl]

Uhhh they came from the Americas. why is that so controversial?

[@teresafernandez9849]

There is actual proof, from EURASIA millions of yrs ago, much longer than any USA archiologists will ever admit!!

[@sonnylambert4893]

Easy to think there is an an even longer forgotten South Asian root to the Olmec Family tree along with South/ Central American like the artistic use of jade . And ceramic. Worshipping sky dragon The babies look so very baby buddha like. And the heads sure appear to have a touch Western Pacific somebody. We have all been taught to see only one race or another so much we forget long ago how it's possible many races and cultures were united in a very real sense. Maybe remnants of the Lemurians if they ever existed. Fascinating and beautiful stuff like the other related or unrelated Meso American/ Central / South and North American peoples

[@teresafernandez9849]

@@terrancejohnson5605 there are amazing things and time lines being discovered since DNA and carbon dating. The discovery of the Denivosons is very significant. There is no Denisovan DNA in Africa or next to none. The Denivosons r a very ancient ppl and culture. It's been known for several years that the Aboriginals of Australia r NOT from Africa and niether r the Negritos from the Philippines. Their ancient DNA places them in Asia Eurasia Oceana. Spin it till ur dizzy, there is no science behind culture vultures BS! Spin it till ur dizzy, you can't change genetics.

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, this is cool

[@persianfantasy2070]

cool

[@EQOAnostalgia]

They don't look black in their statues at all, they look like the Mongols, simple answer, two different peoples crossed the land bridge, some stayed in NA, others went to SA. We know the natives of NA were from Asia... the black hebrew roots stuff really is tainting history lol.

[@hypnotiq54]

They definitely look black. Our perception of what people look like should not be based on how we perceive people today but how they were then. Those people from that time would've had dark skin much like the Ainu people. Their features could've resemble those of Orientals but many Orientals looked black in those days.

[@redbeardsbirds3747]

@@hypnotiq54 So your saying they had “ pseudo black” features even though they are genetically different?

[@hypnotiq54]

@@redbeardsbirds3747 ..They weren't genetically different. Who gave you that idea? They have found thousands of bodies which predate any form of slavery known to the Americas. Now how could that be if the first known slaves arrived in America between 1524 - 1619? Again read what Colombus wrote (not what they said). Read Verrazano works. When these people arrived in America they both claimed to have seen, met people like that of Ethiopia (Africa). Not someone looking Asian or part Asian.

[@cesarnavarro1318]

@@hypnotiq54😂😂NO!!!!

[@hypnotiq54]

@@cesarnavarro1318 ....What's the NO! for? Outside of your conjecture prove your point.

[@BHeisler59]

Hevea Brasiliensis, renders the highest quality latex on earth. Its in their neighborhood. Aside from old school soccer balls which is nothing but entertainment, do you reckon they produced something with a far greater practical application for man especially with knowledge and history of deluge(s). Were they savvy enough to realize its density is less than water whereby it floats. It seems possible and at least moderately probable if they can create a sphere ball, they could create rubber vessels, rubber flotation devices, gaskets and even latex molds for beautiful ornate renderings whereby carving wasn't needed. They seem to have been a very astute people where even today 99% of all studies of them ends in a question mark rather than !

[@teresafernandez9849]

Thank goodness for México and South America, they are the truth keepers!! USA ppl r very misinformed about Native ppl, and ur world is so small about Native ppl! Get ur history from the horses mouth! Visit, the Mexican and Native and South American seem to know more in kindergarten!!

[@brianvalley5223]

Interesting culture and abilities. The cause of their eventual demise eludes most scholars to this day. I can see where the urge to go beyond their immediate area would overwhelm them once they couldn't produce enough food for the society requirements. Their descendants spread throughout central America, and the Yucatan peninsula.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Excellent.

[@54032Zepol]

First!

[@ryanbuckley3314]

I wonder about some of their art. There is imagery that seems to be similar to dragon, lions, and dogs seen in Chinese art. I wonder if the pacific ocean was as much of a barrier to these peoples as we think it is today. Either way, this is beautiful imagery. This was a beautiful culture.

[@saradavis6581]

im going to need to see some peer reviewed papers on that buddy

[@ahuramazda980]

Well, they did originate from Asia.

[@ryanbuckley3314]

Please, dont get me wrong. I have no idea. Im I'm just a regular guy looking at what I see. Im I'm just wondering out loud. I don't pretend to know anything about it. All that I know for sure, is that their imagery invokes similar feelings as Chinese imagery does. I find it compelling and beautiful. Im not pretending to know.

[@akarayan]

@@ryanbuckley3314 I've thought the same thing for years. Imagine if the origin of those cultural and artistic attributes goes back 15-30,000 years, before the ancestors of native Americans left Asia, and they've been slowly developing ever since, both in Asia and Central America. I have no evidence of it but this is what makes sense to me.

[@charleshash4919]

Northern portion of the Pacific Rim was probably the earliest successful route to the Americas from East Asia.

[@meditationstudioXL]

I done a DNA Test and it came back Mesoamerica and Andean. I am also African, so there is scientific evidence now to prove this. I actually learnt something new about my ancestry

[@Lasoundmusiq2023]

What about Guarani Olmecs from the Amazon?

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

What about Olmec language ?

[@jokerbeats5479]

nobody knows but siberyans spook turcic intermingled with scityians masaget eastern iranics aramaic sanskritic yueshy from china area and south east asia spook sanskrit aramaic asiatics,, dialects

[@mateuszciechanowski1885]

most Mesoamerican scholars suggest it might be an early form of Mixe-Zoque, now an obscure but still used family language of southern Mexico.

[@blackolmecs9320]

@@mateuszciechanowski1885 Black Olmec language was totally different from the other native languages that came afterwards.. There was no language relation between Olmecs and latter groups..

[@spikeground]

@@blackolmecs9320 there is no such thing as “Black Olmec”. It exists only in the racist minds of Black Supremacists.

[@shawnmiranda8521]

@@blackolmecs9320 "black olmecs" 😂 you inner city kids really crack me up 😂

[@unexpectedb2641]

In Mexico the Olmecs are known as the "father civilization"

[@teresafernandez9849]

Nope, the Toltecs r.

[@rouven_rr]

❤

[@MrTonyJ]

How do we know they are seperate from later mesoamerican cultures and not in fact just the proto version of them?

[@johnfridayxiii8455]

Olmec was sort of playing basketball and or football type sport. Rubber balls and leather heads. One legend said they still dominate the sport today

[@HVLLOWS1999]

Watch the youtube channel IVICTA his video on the Mesoamerican ball game goes in-depth on the rules. Pok’A’Tok(Mayan) or Tlachtli(Nahuatl) Is more like a combination of Volleyball and Tennis. At least he explains it for how the Aztecs played Tlachtli. Other cultures could have played it a little differently.

[@xxxluvi]

Your just a troll 🧌

[@rustydogrustydog9191]

Funny. But I think you’ve got the wrong civilization. Your thinking the Mali empire or something else in west Africa.

[@cesarnavarro1318]

😂😂😂😂

[@MilanTheMan69]

They look like Polynesians to me... 🤔

[@seanin1990]

Do you know what a Polynesian looked like 3200 years ago🤔

[@MilanTheMan69]

@@seanin1990 no bro But I find those head statues looking more like Polynesians... A lil' bit more fatty then Aztec or Maya... 😄 Full lips...etc

[@jokerbeats5479]

@@seanin1990 afroasiatics hunters was our ancestors sumeryans spread in all continents befores flood

[@seanin1990]

@@jokerbeats5479 learn grammar before you attempt to kick knowledge to me.

[@jokerbeats5479]

@@seanin1990 aym not english man like you

[@wilsontheconqueror8101]

Those are some big dang heads!

[@mcfact1827]

Look up Unexpected faces in ancient America (1500 B.C.-A.D. 1500) by Alexander von wuthenau

[@ralphmoss1766]

Europeans are a new people on our planet

[@veridicusmaximus6010]

Everyone who is alive is new - Duh!

[@ralphmoss1766]

@@veridicusmaximus6010 The aboriginal people of this planet is a New and Old people the Alpha and Omega , beginning and end been inhabiting this earth longer than others.

[@veridicusmaximus6010]

@@ralphmoss1766 You sound bonkers - stop taking drugs! Recombination is always at work son - learn some biology and genetics. Focusing on skin tone is asinine of childish!

[@ralphmoss1766]

@@veridicusmaximus6010 what is known don't have to be explained

[@ralphmoss1766]

@@veridicusmaximus6010 That head looks more like me than you.

[@CrMizer]

Could they be a combination of Africa migration meeting Asian or Polynesian peoples? The eyes in some photos are Asian shapes with wide noes & thick lips that appear African. Could the two people's met & coexist? Could the two people's become their own race? Combining DNA as well as technology to bring rise to the great people of the Olmac?

[@adefay2811]

Asain and African dna are highly linked. A closer relation than to other races. Native Americans have a close link to Africans and asain but genetics show the long time period they were distant from Africans and Asians. So the break in the continental land bridge is true.

[@mcfact1827]

Look up the Khoisan people. They're one of the oldest on earth

[@jimmiehernandez5625]

​@adefay2811 no they don't they did a recent study Omlec are there won race original from America that African theory been bedunked

[@jimmiehernandez5625]

Sorry to let you guys know buddy stop watching them conspiracy theory as far for omlec they are native Americans from Mexico nothing against Africa but we are own race

[@Tye_ellison]

Funny how much they resemble Polynesian people and the Rapanui Moai stone carvings

[@jeremy4610]

Wow, Dragon 🐉 Gods and same tools in hand from half way across the world. It's a small world after all

[@spider336699]

This entire video is mostly lies. Olmecs were in the region as far back as 10,000 bc., long before Mayans and Aztecs.

[@joseph8762]

all native american peoples existed in the americas before they organized into the modern tribes we know today lol

[@ralphmoss1766]

@@joseph8762 And the people here before the Aztecs , Incas and Mayans , were aboriginal blacks.

[@anthonymckinney2868]

@@ralphmoss1766 Bro don’t try to educate These people, let them have their fairytale lies. We all know dark black Africans we’re here thousands of years before anyone else. Let them stay and die stupid ‼️

[@_.Marz._]

​@@ralphmoss1766 What's the technical classification for "aboriginal blacks"? I guarantee they didn't refer to themselves as aboriginal blacks. Aboriginal black people are found everywhere in the world but they're also known by their actual tribal affiliation.

[@felipenunez2058]

​​@@ralphmoss1766 hahaha. How you figure my boy. Native americans have their own genome and no African genome in them like everyone else

[@efulaefula4433]

The same statue is in ethiopia too

[@facade538]

That statue in Ethiopia is a replica gifted by the mexican government.

[@JacobFirlotte]

Cause Mexico stood up for them in ww1 so they named a city square “Mexico square”

[@anthonymckinney2868]

Yeah they know who they’re ancestors are and there’s no denying that fact🖤👑🖤👑

[@rustydogrustydog9191]

@@anthonymckinney2868 Afrocentrism is a delusional parasitic lie.

[@DrBeeSpeaks]

Great documentary! Thank you! I pray their bones to continue to speak and let people know the truth. ❤️

[@ericneiman5556]

Are the olmecs annunaki by chance?

[@LolaYahualica]

No

[@annalisette5897]

The giant heads look very African but their other sculptures of humans have varying features as might be expected in the actual population. I wonder if the giant heads were another form of the were-jaguar? Jaguars have broader noses. The eyes of the heads could be considered cat-like. Jaguars don't have lips but maybe the fleshy lips are a human component. I don't know about the helmets or whatever is on their heads. Maybe there was a real helmet that had jaguar eyes and nose but the human mouth was visible?

[@mirrorx8089]

the lips definitely look like the were-jaguar

[@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject]

Very interesting thought. Maybe it wasn't a helmet and it was just a rag.

[@teresafernandez9849]

Those things on their heads, is a Native thing, they put those headdress on newborns!!

[@yearbyguy4470]

@@teresafernandez9849 haha you’re on every comment huh “migo”

[@gandjgomezfamily5701]

They not Africans don’t confuse native Americans with people from Africa they are totally different tribes

[@HealerTheMaroon]

If the person had a face that looked like an Olmec head and was on a bus in pre 1960’s America they Would have to sit in the back

[@sydneygrace-oconnor3067]

Crabface McGrouch? What technical person is this?

[@balduran2003]

This video is best watched at 2x speed.

[@rasaanshakur9491]

Kendrick Lamar: Just Remember This: Every Race starts from The Black

[@indigenoustoamerica4280]

No they didn't, if they started from "the black" as you say then they would have never achieved what they achieved

[@rasaanshakur9491]

@@indigenoustoamerica4280 this is a white supremist talking point which an actual indigenous amerikan would know better than rely upon.

[@indigenoustoamerica4280]

@@rasaanshakur9491 This is an expected Black Supremist talking point. Been proven Indigenous DNA is not related to Blacks.

[@rasaanshakur9491]

@@indigenoustoamerica4280 it's actually a evolutionary point. Maybe not you $5 Indians, but trust and ask the Portuguese, who the real indigenous are

[@indigenoustoamerica4280]

@@rasaanshakur9491 Evolutionary point how? Indigenous are not related to Blacks its been proven by DNA

[@imhoteprut3645]

These were Africans in features at minimum but profound nonetheless..

[@emmanuelsepulveda1835]

Not at all! Lol 😂😂

[@WILDINDIANS2]

Lol

[@WILDINDIANS2]

Watch "( 100% PROOF ) THE MAYAN OLMEC AND INCA are NOT AFRICAN...." on KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKKVo3eloLNsh6c

[@jamesli2441]

No they weren't

[@eee4763]

African my a..

[@PhilipIIofMacadamia]

Rubber production WAY before they realized the mass use of it. Maybe they did make ancient Tupperware. Who knows! It might not exist in the sites we've found.

[@adamdemirs3466]

My buddy is convinced that most of the arrow heads we find in Texas are Olmec.

[@AngryAndNegativeHistoryProject]

How so? With all the hundreds of years of chichimecca and other tribes, how could someone think that all the footprints are of an earlier tribe?

[@Caligulashorse1453]

Definitely not the natives in the United States we’re master arrowhead makers in fact one of my favorite arrowhead finds is one made of granite which takes extraordinary skill

[@Jmar1024]

The Olmec statues resemble men of African and Polynesian descent. Some look Egyptian as well. Maybe they were an ancient civilization who survived the great flood of Noah and ended up in Mexico?

[@joseph8762]

no, indigenous people still have these phenotypic features. interesting enough, large lips and wide noses are not exclusive to africans

[@Jmar1024]

@@joseph8762 so who do u think the Olmec people were? And how did they get to Mezo America?

[@mcfact1827]

@@joseph8762 all phenotypes come from one place. There's no such as "Convergent evolution" in humans.

[@mcfact1827]

@@dustinblais8159 nope....scholar Dr. Diop proved it to wrong. Plus I have a peer review study that says NO. Convergent evolution happens only in animals. You can look it up. Or you can show scholarly data that says otherwise.

[@teresafernandez9849]

@@joseph8762 Thanks! Finally a person with a whole brain!!

[@commewijnepineribo7899]

Olmec look like Africans

[@facade538]

But Olmecs weren't didn't share recent ancestry with Africans, African-Americans.

[@JacobFirlotte]

Nope, go visit meso American to see their pure Amerindian descendants living their and living the culture

[@commewijnepineribo7899]

@@JacobFirlotte keep on dreaming

[@JacobFirlotte]

@@commewijnepineribo7899 all ancient remains are amerindian, none of their genetics are close to africans.... There's millions of amerindians living in the area who speak their language and live their culture and look like the various olmec sculptures who aren't african...

[@mcfact1827]

@@commewijnepineribo7899 you're correct. Ask them to look up "Olmec with afro hairstyle". They always lie about it and run from it.

[@wilsontheconqueror8101]

There was a lot going on in ancient South America. A lot!

[@emmanuelsepulveda1835]

@@ocelot985 you mean mesoamerica. Meso means middle in Greek.

[@blackolmecs9320]

@@emmanuelsepulveda1835 Middle America is "Central" and Mexico is in North America, and not in Central area.

[@emmanuelsepulveda1835]

@@blackolmecs9320 actually Mexico is in the middle at least from the central part of Mexico extending all the way to the countries of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica.

[@emmanuelsepulveda1835]

@@blackolmecs9320 and I don't think I'll really be debating with someone who I assume believes the Olmecs were of African descent. (I got the assumption from your username).

[@blackolmecs9320]

@@emmanuelsepulveda1835 Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama are all Central America.. Mexico is North America, and i could walk across the border from San Diego, California to Tijuana, Baja Norte in less than 15 minutes. Mexico is in North America, only separated from the USA by a Donald Trump racist Wall ha ha...Lol

[@jermainewashington2224]

Peace and blessings to ancestry 🤔

[@Caligulashorse1453]

A multitude of civilizations exist: Person one: Hmmm what should we crave in stone Person two: big heads

[@nobody8328]

Algorithm fodder 💖

[@joseevalencia3743]

4:12 😂 wait a minute. We are really not going to question how they carved obsidian like that. Because we just don’t care huh?

[@Gunslinger65]

They wore helmets to protect their heads as they worked in deep mines beneath the earth!

[@qui-gonjay2944]

There is zero chance the heads were transported on rafts.

[@brandycoke713]

The late Actor Gilbert lulu Kauhi from Hawaii five 0 kind of look like these Statues.

[@nancysmith2389]

How ever Mario Diaz is a mix. Black, white and Indegenous cultures. He is also an MD. His father the brain surgeon was a dominant.

[@unexpectedb2641]

In Mexico the Olmecs are known as the "sister civilization"

[@user-mb7yk9pt4r]

They have jade, they must be some how connect to Asia, because the Chinese love Jade..

[@PapiBocaChula]

The Hand Bag Connection to ALL the Sites on Earth Speaks of Someone or Something Giving a Bag to Humans. That much is UNIVERSALLY TRUE!! They have an Asian African Look to them.

[@mcc5311]

sup

[@TheDudeGonzalez]

Imagine some IA watching a video in year 2122 about us humans…. My stoned mind