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To: Tallguy; Fred Nerks
There are Olmec statues that look like bearded Norsemen too.

Also, I lost the picture of the Olmec statue that looked just like a Jewish Rabi...a Jewish FReeper told me that just put (what are those Jewish caps called?) a cap on him and he looked like his Rabi.

Nordic Origins

Detail of the carved portrait nicknamed "Uncle Sam" by researchersAccording to Michael Coe, explorer and cultural diffusionist Thor Heyerdahl claimed at least some of the Olmec leadership had Nordic ancestry, a view at least partly inspired by the bearded figure, often referred to as "Uncle Sam",[41] carved into La Venta Stela 3, whose apparent aquiline nose has been cited as possible evidence for ancient visitors to the Americas from the Old World.

Bearded Foreigners In MesoAmerica

33 posted on 07/11/2011 5:26:19 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Asian, negroid, semetic...and Vikings, all found their way to Mexico? It certainly looks that way...

VIKING OR ROMAN? LINK

Doubt that Christopher Columbus's sailors were the first Old World inhabitants that made contact with American Indians is almost as old as the Spanish Admiral's discoveries. In the art and folklore of American's autochthonous towns there are several indications which make us think that some sporadic contacts occurred between civilizations on both sides of the Atlantic as early as the first millennium BC...

37 posted on 07/11/2011 3:14:51 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (,)
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To: blam

Another unexpected face. Bearded ceramic head of pre-Columbian origin from Rio Balsas, Guerrero, Mexico. Photo: American Museum of Natural History

THE RA EXPEDITIONS REVISITED

39 posted on 07/11/2011 3:40:29 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (,)
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