they came before columbus the african presence in ancient america

Their hair is short and coarse, almost like the hairs of a horse’s tail. Columbus never claimed that he saw black people in the Americas. I want to make a point of clarification here. When the metallurgists in Spain assayed these spears, they found they were identical, not similar, but were identical in their ratio of gold, silver and copper alloys as spears then being forged in African Guinea.

However, Columbus actually sent back on a mail boat to Spain, samples of these gold-tipped metal spears. It could be dark, bronze people from South America. Probably Columbus did not believe this and that fact in itself would not be enough because the so-called Black people could be any people. Columbus actually said in the journal of his second voyage when he was in Haiti, then known as Espanola, Native Americans came to him and told him that Black people had come in large boats from the south and southeast trading in gold-tipped metal spears. Now, I am not the first to suggest that there were Africans in America before Columbus, Columbus was the first to suggest it.

Van Sertima repeated this claim again when he testified in front of the House of Representatives: Not only because of the apparent Asian features of some of the Olmec sculptures, but Xu also attempted to draw a connection between the Olmec script and Chinese characters. Van Sertima was among those who argued that the Olmec had African origins, whereas others such as Mike Xu have argued that the Olmec civilization has Asian roots. Van Sertima never explained why he selected this particular dynasty, but his reasoning for doing so is important because he later altered the date in African Presence in Early America to “948 or circa 1000 B.C.” Van Sertima was forced to alter his thesis in light of new evidence which demonstrated that the Olmec civilization was older than was originally believed, which leads me to the next issue.īecause the Olmec civilization is one that has been largely shrouded in mystery, there have been a number of theories about the historical roots of the Olmec. In They Came Before Columbus, Van Sertima argues that Egyptian journey to the Americas happened during the rule of the 25th dynasty, which was the Kushite dynasty that ruled Egypt. In the first place, there are no Egyptian historical records which suggest that the Egyptians ever sailed to America or even attempted such a journey. There are some problems with this theory. In They Came Before Columbus, Ivan Van Sertima put forward the argument that African people were in the Americas long before Columbus was.

They came before columbus the african presence in ancient america