When Did the Chinese First Visit the Americas?
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» bossel - Olmecs from China?
I doubt that. Olmec culture originated in the Eastern part of Meso-America, at the Gulf of Mexico. It's rather improbable that any Shang refugees made a new start just there. Then even the out-of-Africa theory makes more sense (though I'm not yet convinced of that, either):http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/...
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bay/7051/...
Seemingly they also have better evidence than the pro-Chinese side. But could you please provide the exact source for
"Olmec artists in Mexico started to display an unprecedented facility with working with jade, began depicting Asian rather than American animals and other phenomena suggesting an influx of Chinese culture."
If it's from Menzies' crappy book, though, you don't need to bother.
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