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Ancient Caucasians with beards in Meso America
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    Posted: 08-Oct-2009 at 07:18
I had to laugh when I looked at the original topic and how much we(I) strayed from it. I  cleaned the mess and created new topic and moved posts about Eurocentric vision of world there.  Join me there.

Edited by cavalry4ever - 08-Oct-2009 at 07:46
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I still believe diffusionism is just a form of etnocentrism.
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While I haven't scoured the entire forum thread (to see if anyone else mentions this)--

I just wonder, as an Illustrator with a keen interest in Anthropology, if anyone has just concluded that perhaps these are just images of idealised beauty traits. Compare rounded Looney Tunes characters to the very angular Fairly Oddparents. Both come from the same region, but two entirely different aesthetics, separated by only 40ish years.

A world-spanning, antediluvian culture, or even just globe-trotting Norwegians... all fascinating and plausible... but maybe it's just artist interpretation?
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Yes, the meso cultures and the peruvian cultures had very stylized art, as well as realistic art, depending on the context. There are bountiful examples in pottery, sculpture etc. of this. The Olmec 'heads' are a good example of stylized exaggeration mistaken as african features.
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If the carvings are Olmec it's possible the people depicted were Africans. Many black men can grow beards which, if left untrimmed, can tangle and resemble dreadlocks
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