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Olmec heads
The sources for that sentence did not say the heads have African features. You'd need an academic source claiming that. Here's what one academic, Ken Feder, says: "This proposition is fundamentally flawed and, to be blunt, just silly. One could just as readily argue that the Olmec heads present stereotypically Native American features, with very flat faces (in distinction to the forward-thrusting 4 profile—technically, “prognathous”—of the mid- and lower face of many African people south of the Sahara). At the same time, the eyelids depicted in the Olmec heads show what appears to be the typical eye fold (the “epicanthic fold") seen in Asians and Native Americans that gives those peoples their distinctive eye shape (their actual eyes are the same shape as Europeans, Australians, and Africans: it’s the skin in the surrounding eyelids that makes the shape appear distinctive and different). Finally, if you examine the full range of physical variation among the Native Americans of even just Central America, you’ll find people with broad, thick lips and flat, broad noses, just like the Olmec heads. The facial features of the Olmec heads represent the weakest evidence possible to support the hypothesis that the Olmec rulers were actually transplanted Africans. As Olmec researcher Richard Diehl (2004, 112) puts it, “There can be no doubt that the heads depict the American Indian physical type still commonly seen on the streets of Soteapan, Acayucan, and other towns in the region." Dougweller (talk) 09:35, 18 March 2014 (UTC)