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Those statues were painted once:(Eastern Island!)
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Actually the regions where the heads were found is considered Central America.
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Nick. Mexico, to include the parts the Olmec heads were found in, is in North America.
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The heads from Angkor War look nothing like the Olmecs. They are obviously Asian, while the South American heads have more "African" features
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Red Clay, point made, though I wouldn't call the first photo in your Olmec heads helmeted. It looks more like a hairline, and definitely negroid.
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Originally posted by red clay

 From Angor Wat, you be the judge.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
They couldn't be any more different if they tried, IMO.
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 From Angor Wat, you be the judge.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Oh get real.  In the years I worked in the Landscape field I knew a lot of Mexicans, none of them looked like this.
 
          
 
          
 
 
 
          
 
Note that all of the heads show them as Helmed.
 
 
The design of the helmet would also be important when investigating migration, as in were they common place elsewhere.
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Painters have been under payed,union of workers corrupted and paint color vanished.Let me be clear about
color people:Ancient people's life element in statues and buildings around them was color.Color shows them
they are alive,different than stones!Only modern sterile&lifeless human society could be admired by colorless blocks of stones(period!).But color do not last forever,believe me i colored my fence 3-4 months ago and...maintenance follows.
 
 
Color is particularly important in areas such as Egypt where the desert conditions limit natural colors to shades of beige.  A door painted red can be seen a long way off in a beige landscape.
 
When our son came back from Iraq in 03, he arrived just before Christmas.  We took him out shopping at the local mall and he became sick.  He said that the colors and lights were the cause. He had been in a beige landscape for nine months and the visual input created a vertigo like condition.
 
 
Oh that sounds like hell, red, I hope you son has recovered now. My Mum suffers from migraines from time to time, and though not really the same, she has the same sort of reactions.
 
 
It took him about a week to readjust.  With no residuals.
 
 
Well that's the main thing, red. I hope it didn't spoil your Christmas too much.
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Painters have been under payed,union of workers corrupted and paint color vanished.Let me be clear about
color people:Ancient people's life element in statues and buildings around them was color.Color shows them
they are alive,different than stones!Only modern sterile&lifeless human society could be admired by colorless blocks of stones(period!).But color do not last forever,believe me i colored my fence 3-4 months ago and...maintenance follows.
 
 
Color is particularly important in areas such as Egypt where the desert conditions limit natural colors to shades of beige.  A door painted red can be seen a long way off in a beige landscape.
 
When our son came back from Iraq in 03, he arrived just before Christmas.  We took him out shopping at the local mall and he became sick.  He said that the colors and lights were the cause. He had been in a beige landscape for nine months and the visual input created a vertigo like condition.
 
 
Oh that sounds like hell, red, I hope you son has recovered now. My Mum suffers from migraines from time to time, and though not really the same, she has the same sort of reactions.
 
 
It took him about a week to readjust.  With no residuals.
 
 
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What makes the Olmec heads negroid?  Take a look at some of the sculptured heads of Angor wat.
 
 
Oh get real.  In the years I worked in the Landscape field I knew a lot of Mexicans, none of them looked like this.
 
          
 
          
 
 
 
          
 
Note that all of the heads show them as Helmed.
 
 
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Painters have been under payed,union of workers corrupted and paint color vanished.Let me be clear about
color people:Ancient people's life element in statues and buildings around them was color.Color shows them
they are alive,different than stones!Only modern sterile&lifeless human society could be admired by colorless blocks of stones(period!).But color do not last forever,believe me i colored my fence 3-4 months ago and...maintenance follows.
 
 
Color is particularly important in areas such as Egypt where the desert conditions limit natural colors to shades of beige.  A door painted red can be seen a long way off in a beige landscape.
 
When our son came back from Iraq in 03, he arrived just before Christmas.  We took him out shopping at the local mall and he became sick.  He said that the colors and lights were the cause. He had been in a beige landscape for nine months and the visual input created a vertigo like condition.
 
 
Oh that sounds like hell, red, I hope you son has recovered now. My Mum suffers from migraines from time to time, and though not really the same, she has the same sort of reactions.
What a handsome figure of a dragon. No wonder I fall madly in love with the Alani Dragon now, the avatar, it's a gorgeous dragon picture.
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Originally posted by medenaywe

Painters have been under payed,union of workers corrupted and paint color vanished.Let me be clear about
color people:Ancient people's life element in statues and buildings around them was color.Color shows them
they are alive,different than stones!Only modern sterile&lifeless human society could be admired by colorless blocks of stones(period!).But color do not last forever,believe me i colored my fence 3-4 months ago and...maintenance follows.
 
 
Color is particularly important in areas such as Egypt where the desert conditions limit natural colors to shades of beige.  A door painted red can be seen a long way off in a beige landscape.
 
When our son came back from Iraq in 03, he arrived just before Christmas.  We took him out shopping at the local mall and he became sick.  He said that the colors and lights were the cause. He had been in a beige landscape for nine months and the visual input created a vertigo like condition.
 
 
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What makes the Olmec heads negroid?  Take a look at some of the sculptured heads of Angor wat.

A black person doesn't neccessarily have to be African. The Australian Aborigines and people of modern-day India both have dark skin and features typical of black Africans despite having lived in their respective countries centuries after leaving Africa and coming into contact other races. The Indians, Aborigines and Polynesians may have retained darker skin as protection from the hot sun, though this is pure speculation
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Painters have been under payed,union of workers corrupted and paint color vanished.Let me be clear about
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What makes the Olmec heads negroid?  Take a look at some of the sculptured heads of Angor wat.
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How similar are Indian and Polynesian DNA? Perhaps the Olmec civilisation was founded by these Aboriginals who may have had darker skin and more negroid features in the past?
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in re:  "It's highly likely the Polynesians at least set foot in America. Rafts like the Kon-Tiki were more than capable of making long-distance ocean voyages"

Since the Polynesians were not known for making long sea voyages in rafts, I fail to see the connection. If central and southern coastal Peru lacks large forests with trees susceptible to being fashioned into ocean canoes, that is not the case with northern Peru and Ecuador, both of which wre within within the nothern limits of the Inca empire. As for the Kon Tiki, note that it was towed fifty miles out to sea to begin its voyage, due to currents off Peru's coast, something that pre-Colombian Peruvians would have had to contend with. So, while such rafts were theoretically capable of making long distance ocean voyages, it is far more likely they stayed in close to the coast and did not venture over the open sea.

I too believe that some Polynesians set foot in the Americas, but if they survived first contact with the locals, they were likely absorbed into those populations. Perhaps some future genetic study will establish a link with some central and northern south american Pacific coast areas.
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There's an even larger monolith in the quarry at Easter Island. It was never finished, but "El gigante" is over 20 meters long
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Some of the ( standing) statues on Easter Island are 10 metres (ca 33 feet) high or more. That makes them probably the largest ancient statues in the whole southern hemisphere.  That is.... I haven't found larger/taller ancient statues in South America, Africa,  Asia or anywhere else below the equator .

 
 
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