[Aztlan] Olmec Tsunamis

[Javier Pulido Biosca]

I know nothing about those studies, but I live at Coatzacoalcos, this is the 
coast, not "near" to the cost, I think this is an ambiguous expression, 
¿what does "near" means?

Surely, the olmec settlemen nearer to the cost is La Venta and is about 25 
Km. far from the shores, and if you take a sight from the leader hill of La 
Venta, you can see that is sorounded by little hills, then, you can be sure 
that they are not in risk to be destroyed by any tsunami (there are no 
tsunamis in the Gulf coast).

But the inundations provoked by a hurricane are a risk, then they 
constructed platfoms in order to avoid this risk.

Abour simmilarities between Olmec sculpture and other cultures, I beleive 
that, if there is not another archaeological evidence, is easier to explain 
these cultures as natural from the region, we have to hear Occam's razor

Cheers
Javier


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Kirsch junior" <rkirsch at cox.net>
To: <aztlan at lists.famsi.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:02 AM
Subject: [Aztlan] Olmec Tsunamis


> Javier, how do you know that the Olmec didn't have coastal settlements 
> when studies show they cultivated crops near the coast.
> Is La Venta protected by mountains far inland or is it on a coastal flood 
> plain. And why did the Olmec go to all the trouble of building raised 
> platforms to build their structures, was it to gain a line of site to 
> other landmarks needed for astronomical observations. I think that their 
> facial features are more Hawaiin or Japanese, in which case they were 
> seafarers and would have taken shelter at the first sign of an approaching 
> Hurricane. So you're right, they diffused, migrated, interbred, fell 
> victime to warfare, were sacrificed or slowly died off due to hereditary 
> flaws that doomed reproduction within the group.
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