Everything about the Olmecs look African. Hair,lips,nose,cheekbones,etc. And the fact that Africa can be reached by simple currents in the Ocean from where the Olmec statues were found is not a stretch of the imagination to assume that the Olmecs had an African origin.
Only a cac troll would deny this
My point is that if you're going to support the pre-columbian contact of african theory, STOP fukkING USING OLMECS.
There is WAY more data to support that THEORY (not confirmed reasonably imo) than to look at statues with RIDICULOUSLY vague features that could be applied to anyone who lives in the tropics.
Geography influences physical features more than anything...ESPECIALLY in terms of latitude.
Broader noses = able to breathe warmer tropical air.
Curly/dark hair as a result of being around the equator and selecting for those with more melanin.
etc.
Even elevation changes these characteristics as well as diet.
Ya'll nikkas could be well served by reading something like Guns Germs and Steel and incorporating that into your critiques instead of acting like EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE was from africa.
Yes. Melanin is strongest where it came from, but it also does result as a number of geographical features as well.