The people of this period were not Pithcanthropi or Australopithecus (Anthropoid primates). These Archaic indigenous inhabitants belonged to the class of Homo Sapiens, thus leading to the belief that ancient America (despite the narrow minded kaleidoscope view of Europeans) was a highly advanced civilization. We see this in the advanced artistry and sculpturing, which was quite different than the art and sculpting of tribal cultures. Meso-America archeology provides enough data to suggest that these inhabitants were a high status group with the presence of elite leaders, a military force, a political hierarchy, and quite obviously or at least sensibly, a penal system as opposed to a primitive tribal cultures vigilante methods of punishment. Historians speculate on the actual racial identity of these inhabitants. Many hypotheses suggest that the archaic inhabitants were of Mayan linguistic stock. The contradiction to this hypothesis would be that the inhabitants spoke an ancestral form of Mixe-Zoquean. Other historians speculate that the people who populated Meso-America were Mongoloid people who crossed over between Siberia and Alaska and were called, Paleosiberian, or Ice Hunters. Upon research in the etymology of the term Paleosiberian, we find paleo from the Greek word palai to mean, ancient or primitive. Siberian has a dual meaning: Sib from the Greek Sippa to mean kinship, family-related by blood. Erian or Aryan from the Sanskrit word arya to mean noble, in reference to the Persian language. Arya also denotes a sub-tribe of people who migrated from Turkey into Palestine and were given the name Caucasian from the regions of the Caucus Mountains in Europe. However, the stone images were not the depiction of Siberians or Mongoloids. The archeologists are not in agreement with the identity of these inhabitants, or more correctly have denied indisputable truth of their origin. However, since the mysterious unearthing of this ancient civilization, one name has surfaced from later transcriptions, the name was, Olmec. Who were these people called Olmecs? Can we speculate that these people of the colossal heads were Asians who crossed the Bearing Strait or Siberian icemen who migrated from Europe? Jose Maria Y Serrano upon excavating one of the monolith heads in this region of San Andres Tuxtla, published a short passage in the bulletin of the Mexican Geographical Statistical Society: As a work of art, it, without exaggeration, a magnificent sculpture... but what most amazed me was that the type that it represent is Ethiopian (African). I concluded that there had doubtless been blacks (Negroid) in this region, and from the very earliest ages of the world. In 1939, Dr. Matthew Sterling led a joint team from the National Geographic Society into the Gulf of Mexico to spearhead a major digging operation in Vera Cruz to unearth the monolith heads. Sterling concluded: The features are bold and amazingly Negroid in character. The archeological and cultural data overwhelmingly confirms the depiction of Negroid faces. Further archeological evidence of the Negroid in ancient America is found in the Monte Alban culture which seems to have begun at the end of the Olmec culture. In Monte Alban, 140 Negroid type figures have been discovered. Upon archeological research, there is no logical denying of the negroidness found in the art of ancient America. Although there has been denial amongst historians, archeologist have indeed confirmed at least four major facts:
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