[Aztlan] Olmec extinction

[Diehl, Richard]

Well put, Javier. Every time I walk the towns and villages of the Sotavento (Olman), I see the descendents of the Olmecs all around me.
Dick Diehl

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   1. Re: Olmec Tsunamis (Javier Pulido Biosca)


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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:04:02 -0600
From: Javier Pulido Biosca <raices1 at prodigy.net.mx>
Subject: Re: [Aztlan] Olmec Tsunamis
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One can read all this stuff about tsunamis erasing olmec culture from the
map and think that everybody can write an opinion without any knowledge of
the topic and the place mentionat in the opinion.

This carries out the need to remembre the old distinguish between doxa and
episteme. If anthropology has to be considered as a science, it has to be an
episteme, not a doxa.

Tsunamis are impossible in the Olmec's region, because the most important
sites are far from the beaches. Olmec region is protected by mountains,
Saint Martin and the Tuxtlas, at the north of the isthmus, and the Mixtec
mountains at the south. Tsunamis are impossible.

About mongolism, the topic is very speculative, there is a hypothesis
explaining this differences considering them as product of migratiosn, from
China, and from Africa the negroid characteristics.

Is difficult to talk about the extintion of olmecs, maybe is easier to
explain the changes by waching the evidences of migrations in Mesoamerica.

Cordially,
Javier Pulido Biosca


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jorge P?rez de Lara" <jorgepl at estudioelias.com>
To: "Aztlan" <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 7:40 PM
Subject: [Aztlan] Olmec demise


> Listeros,
>
> In my view, making an argument for inter-breeding as explaining the
> Olmec's "race" demise and/or associating were-jaguar imagery with
> mongoloids is 100% speculative for it is put forth in the absence of
> supporting evidence. Possible, yes. But likely? A myriad explanations
> for the disappearance of Olmec culture can be presented, of course, but
> one should start by considering that there is no evidence that the Olmec
> were wiped out and therefore to posit a catastrophic explanation for
> such "wipe-out" cannot be justified. Their culture may well have just
> dwindled and disappeared over time, like Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia and
> countless civilizations before and after them.
>
> Tsunamis, inter-breeding and other calamities, in the absence of hard
> facts fitting the proposed model, seem unnecessarily convoluted.
>
> One should always keep in mind the principle of Occam's razor and stick
> to the simplest explanation that takes into account all the known
> evidence.
>
> Jorge
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