Friday, May 8, 2009 (4)

May 8, 2009
May 2, 2009
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  • RUNOKO RASHIDI'S AFRICAN PRESENCE IN PRESENCE GROUP TOUR

  • May 2, 2009 to May 16, 2009
  • Location: Mexican Gulf Coast
  • Description: DR. RUNOKO RASHIDI's ~~AFRICAN PRESENCE IN MEXICO GROUP TOUR ~~ "BEGINNING WITH THE OLMEC" May 2-16, 2009 Special Feature: The Ivan Van Sertima Symposium Prices beginning at $2689.00 double occupancy It is accurate to say of the Americas that not only did Columbus come late but that African people had a profound presence long before the beginning of the trans-Atlantic trade in captured Africans. The first civilization of ancient America is called the Olmec. It was located along the Mexican Gulf Coast and began almost four thousand years ago. The most significant artistic representations reflecting the presence of Africans in the ancient Americas are to be found among the Olmec. At least seventeen enormous stone heads, weighing from ten to forty tons each, have been revealed in Olmec sites along the Mexican Gulf Coast. Many of them can be viewed today in Mexico's many museums. One of the first European-American scientists to comment on the Olmec heads, archaeologist Mathew Stirling,
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