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Jay Expressions (talk) 23:45, 13 February 2015 (UTC)Early Arrivals to the Americas

Information based on this information can be acquired from the studies and writings of Ivan Van Sertima an established anthropologists of the 1970s who was indeed a professor teaching Afro-American studies at Rutgers University.

Contrary to popular writings earlier voyages across the Atlantic were achieved by West Africans believed to be of the Mandingo tribe who arrived during the early period of 14 century. These tribes arrived and provided their own agriculture whilst the others would practice trade as a living which would see them journey as nomadic tribes throughout central and South America. As traders, it would be impossible for these traders to have a settlement unlike the others who would arrive and cultivate the land and build their homes based on skills acquired in Africa to build and construct such homes in Texcoco's Mexico. The Mandingo traders however would find temporary residence where ever they went as nomadic tribes and would set up bases in hostile locations as their defense within the Americas.

To support evidence that a civilization of Africans existed in Mexico, Olmec heads otherwise known as head stones were escavated in the year 1854 but due to limited methods in carbon dating it was impossible to conclusively date these stone heads made of clay at the time. But once the emergence of improved methods to dating had arrived by the 1960s these Olmec heads that weighed 4 -10 tons were dated back to 800-600 BC. An historian by the name of Manuel Orozco Y Berra made reference to these Olmec heads in his book entitled Ancient History of the conquest of Mexico written in 1854.

These Olmec heads resembled strong African features exhibited in their broad noses and thick lips assembled in these sculptures and were preserved and placed in galleries although it were not possible for all of these to be preserved.

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