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Title: They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima ISBN: 0-394-40245-6 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 12 November, 1976 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.53 (43 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: the black man is GOD
Comment: WOW.. THIS BOOKS IS GREAT.. WE MUST ALL KNOW AND RECOGNIZE THAT THE BLACK MAN IS GOD AND HE IS THE CREATOR AND CONTROLLER OF EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE. AND FOR THE "CHINO" WHO DOSEN'T LIKE THE BOOK, I SUGGEST HE HITS THE BOOKS HARDER AND TRY TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE OF HIMSELF!! THE DEVIL IS AMONG US AND US BLACK GODS ANS EARTHS MUST UNITE. PEACE TO THE BLACK MAN! AND TO THE EARTH!!
THE BLACK MAN IS GOD!!!!!!!!
Rating: 1
Summary: Afrocentric Garbage
Comment: I am chicano (predominately Native American) and I find it offensive that racist scholars like Sertima are claiming that the native americans of central America were incapable of producing anything without the help of 'civilizing' African explorers.
I find it hypocritical that those who are giving this book a positive review simply dismiss the negative reviews as 'eurocentric racists' but fail to see the racist Afrocentric presuppositions embedded in their own fallacious claims.
If there is evidence substantiating Sertima's claims he has to give me more than a few linguistics similarities (I read recently that a Japanese scholar is now claiming the few olmec gylphs--there is only one glyph in la venta that sertima claims supposidly has a term that is similar to W. African writing--are of Japanese origin but we'll deal with cultural robbers one at a time) and a few head stone that supposdily look "negroid" African. Many Olmec depictions in carvings show people with varied features and many of these features were exagerrated. A simple search on google and you will have a hard time finding Africans depicted in Olmec artwork (but Sertima has to dwell on a few head stones). Where are all of the AFrican cultural artifacts? Where is the radiocarbon evidence? Where are the african plants? So some indigenous people have black in them, so what. Slaves were brought over here during Spanish colonialism and some mixture between certain groups was inevitable. This does not prove that that a handful of Africans created the Olmec civilization. All of this evidence would be expected if there is "overwhelming evidence."
Sertima claims that Africans originated civilization in Mexico. Recently, due to a total lack of evidence and support in academia, he has retracted that statement, saying now that it was confined to trade.
I would also like to know why didn't 'Olmec' pyramids, heads, and other artifacts never appear in west Africa? The oldest Olmec heads predate the supposed exploration of Africans to the Americas. Did they lug all of their 20 ton heads over here and just simply stopped carving them in the mother land of Africa? And why didn't they bring any animals and plants? That would be expected if we are to believe in African voyages to the New World. Why is maze, and not wheat (african) the crop of the Olmecs?
Archeological evidence shows a definite buildup of the elements of civilization in Mexico prior to the Olmecs. Africans didn't sail over the Americas and 'civilize' the Natives. Neither did Europeans, Asians, Hindu's, or anyone else for that matter. Why must Afrocentrics consistenly leech off of other cultures in order to inflate their egos? IT's getting to the point where they're becoming worse than the Eurocentrics they're always complaining about.
"Some scholars used to think that the Olmec were the "Mother Culture" of Mesoamerica because the art styles of later cultures such as the Maya seem to have had their roots in the Early Formative/Preclassic period. This concept has undergone radical change recently. In 1989 the top Olmec specialists got together and published "Regional Perspectives on the Olmec" (Sharer and Grove, Cambridge University Press). This volume represented a
change in ideology concerning the "mother culture". It discussed how MANY areas of Mesoamerica developed simultaneously, with different regions making different technological and social innovations. Lime plaster was earliest in Oaxaca (it would eventually revolutionize Mesoamerican architecture), temple mounds may be earliest on the Pacific Coast (see Gareth Lowe's work at the site of Paso de Amada), and the Gulf Coast (the
only area which should be given the term "Olmec") can boast its grand monolithic carvings. No one culture can any longer be called a "mother culture" in Mesoamerica. Some scholars will still use the term "mother culture" when describing the Olmec, but they will generally be refering to the impact of the horizon-style of "Olmec" art. Traces of this art style can be found from highland central Mexico to Honduras and El Salvador during the Early and Middle Formative/Preclassic periods." - David R. Hixson
Public Service Archaeology Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rating: 5
Summary: great
Comment: This is a great book that needed to be written. If you pay close attention you will notice alot of thease bad reviews are from the same person.
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Title: A Chronology of the Bible: Challenge to the Standard Version by Yosef Ben-Jochannan ISBN: 0933121288 Publisher: Black Classic Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.00 |
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Title: Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams ISBN: 0883780305 Publisher: Third World Press Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality by Cheikh Anta Diop, Mercer Cook ISBN: 1556520727 Publisher: Lawrence Hill & Co Pub. Date: September, 1983 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Stolen Legacy by George G. M. James ISBN: 0913543780 Publisher: African American Images Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews by Rudolph R. Windsor, El Hagahn ISBN: 0962088110 Publisher: Windsor Golden Series Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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