LEGEND SIDE: The features of the Negro as in the Olmec (1 - 4 and 9 - 12) and as in the Afro-American (5), African (6, 8), and Mesoamerican (7) may center on the full nose and mouth. The Mayan (13 - 20) have been noted for their (often) high nose bridge. They are two different peoples. On the origins of the Olmec: “In 1832, Rafinesque noted the similarities between the Mayan glyphs and the Libyco-Berber writing. And Leo Wiener (1922, v. 3) was the first researcher to recognize the resemblance between the Manding writing and the symbols on the Tuxtla statuette. In addition, Harold Lawrence (1962) noted that the ‘petrographic’ inscriptions found throughout much of the southern hemisphere compared identically with the writing systems of the Manding.” In: Clyde Winters, Afrocentrism - Myth or Science, (Lulu publishers, 2005), p. 268. Picture pairs: African physiology in ancient statues and contemporary Negroes resemble in 1/5, 2/6, and 3/7. In 4/6 and 8, the Nubians (6 and 8) are wearing the same kind of ear ring as the Olmec king (4). Chance? How likely is it chance? The Olmec are gone now. What is their legacy? Unsung heroes, It was the African (meaning by phenotype and origin) Olmec who introduced the world to coffee, rubber, chocolate, ball games, and tobacco - and in this way, he underlaid multi- trillion dollar industries in the world today enabling wealth to hundreds of millons of human beings. They brought religion, the calendar, the study of astronomy & mathematics, farming, stone masonry, art, and civilization to Mesoamerica and - in their way - to the world. They carved cities out of forest that would become the seeds of future living centers of millions. It is they who were the Mother Civilization of Mesoamerica - as National Geographic writes in their May 2002 issue; and they are not alone in this acknowledgement.art, art history, Paul Marc Washington, paleoneolithic@yahoo.com

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