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2380075
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The Mystery of the Olmecs
DVD, 2009
New, Sealed
79 Minutes. DVD in Box.
Maverick archeologist David Hatcher Childress takes us deep into Mexico and Central America in search of the mysterious Olmecs, North America’s early, advanced civilization, in this live conference video in San Diego. The Olmecs, now sometimes called Proto-Mayans, were not acknowledged to have existed as a civilization until an international archeological meeting in Mexico City in 1942. Now, the Olmecs are slowly being recognized as the Mother Culture of Mesoamerica, having invented writing, the ball game and the “Mayan” Calendar. But who were the Olmecs? Where did they come from? What happened to them? Why are many Olmec statues and figurines seemingly of foreign peoples such as Africans, Europeans and Chinese? Childress answers as many questions as he can in this startling presentation that includes cranial deformation, megalithic buildings in South America and trans-oceanic megalithic cultures.