RE: Why Muslims are under rated.
August 12, 2012 at 11:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2012 at 11:54 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 12, 2012 at 4:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
The winds and currents between West Africa and South America are the most likely suspect. Shortest distance and half a chance of getting back.
Plus - the Olmec heads look decidedly African.
![[Image: 4_3c.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.bbc.co.uk%2Fworldservice%2Fafrica%2Ffeatures%2Fstoryofafrica%2Fimages%2F4_3c.gif)
![[Image: olmec1.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.ccsf.edu%2FLibrary%2Fexhibits%2Folmec1.jpg)
No large scale contact or colonization effort ever happens without a simultaneous transfer of animal and plant life, domesticated and undomesticated, that live in the environ of the contact populations. That there are no clear candidate for transfer of animals and plants associated with human environs in either direction between the old and new worlds after the end of ice age is my my mind a very strong argument against any substantial post-glacial, per-columban contact between the human populations of the old world and the new.
If there were, it must have been small and of negligible importance to either environments and sociologies involved.
