Why Muslims are under rated.

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No one is arguing they were classical Greeks. Egyptian statuary was highly stylized, too.

Indeed,yet the races portrayed say on victory monuments, are often identifiable. Plus, I don't remember you claiming any direct link between the Olmec an Africa. I thought you simply made the oservation that Olmec statues have African features, which they seem to have to me.

The notion that the Olmec came from Africa has been a fairly common view. However, the current consensus seems to be that the Olmec originated in meso America.

From Wiki:

Mainstream scientific consensus

The great majority of scholars who specialise in Mesoamerican history, archaeology and linguistics remain unconvinced by alternative origin speculations.[1] Many are more critical and regard the promotion of such unfounded theories as a form of ethnocentric racism at the expense of indigenous Americans.[2] The consensus view maintained across publications in peer-reviewed academic journals that are concerned with Mesoamerican and other pre-Columbian research is that the Olmec and their achievements arose from influences and traditions that were wholly indigenous to the region, or at least the New World, and there is no reliable material evidence to suggest otherwise.[3] They, and their neighbouring cultures with whom they had contact, developed their own characters which were founded entirely on a remarkably interlinked and ancient cultural and agricultural heritage that was locally shared, but arose quite independently of any extra-hemispheric influences.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec_alter...eculations