![]() ![]() First, no genuine African artifact has ever been found in a controlled archaeological excavation in the New World. ![]() This article shows the proposal to be devoid of any foundation. This theory has spread widely in the African-American community, both lay and scholarly, but it has never been evaluated at length by Mesoamericanists. The first and most important contact, he argued, was between Nubians and Olmecs in 700 B.C., and it was followed by other contacts from Mali in A.D. In 1976, Ivan Van Sertima proposed that New World civilizations were strongly influenced by diffusion from Africa. CA FORUM ON ANTHROPOLOGY IN PUBLIC Current Anthropology, Volume 38, Number 3, June 1997, pp 419-441Ībstract Article Notes Comments Reply References Cited ![]()
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