00:01.79
archpodnet
Welcome back to the pseudo archeology podcast episode 1 oh three, the olmec stone heads and we are at the final point listeners. What to do about this story about the story that africans may have come across. As evidenced by the large lips of the all met colossal heads. This one is easy. We just need to be honest and be like that never happened. We got to stop telling that stupid story that let's face it. Racist story about oh proof that africans were here three thousand years ago because these stone structures these these stone carvings of huge heads happen to have larger lips. It's just it's just the most idiotic lame story and don't you find that. Sometimes with these with these old school losers pseudor archeology stories. They're just not very fun. They're just dumb you know and I feel bad because I didn't have that many jokes this time you know because I'm like this is so stupid that I can't I can't riff on this It's like just so dumb. Ah so so you know how do how do? How do we prove that these aren't african ok I'll do it here. Ah let me go first. Well besides.

01:37.55
archpodnet
Looking at an artistic choice of giving larger lips and we could go on about how allmec culture in olmec sculp sculpture. They tend to um, make a larger mouth and they have kind of almond shaped eyes there. There's artistic stereotypes that the ancient olmec use just like we use today. Um, so not only did they do that but barring the olmec stone heads their their artistic look nothing has ever been found in that area that's from Africa nothing nothing ever not a single piece of. Bone not a single piece of stone. Not a single piece of shell and not a single pot. Not a sliver of a thing nothing have I said nothing's been found as an archeologist. That's what I want. I want data I don't give a damn about your feelings I don't care if you really think that africans could have come over because look at a map isn't Africa kind of close to central America yeah, but you have no data. Nothing. The data can be thin but at least I want some you have nothing so stop wasting my time right? This whole thing is just built on a fantasy based on.

03:09.85
archpodnet
A preconceived racist notion of how something looks right? so much of pseudo archeology does this the just this preconceived look like a hill. That's just a hill but is vaguely pyramid shaped again. It happens every so often. Geologically it's like oh. That must be a pyramid. No, it's not It's a hill shaped like a pyramid it happens 1 time out of every 500 you know it's just a hill my friends and I am so tired of hearing like you know. Archeologists in their narrowminded world. they just they just don't look they just don't look for this because they're so close minded. Yes, we do. Okay, you don't think that we would see this kind of stuff immediately after the. thousands the literally thousands and thousands of hours that we sit in the lab sorting the pot shirts sorting the bone fragments sorting the stone tools. You don't think that if one of those one once was different. And it would be obvious because hey if there's 1 thing archeologists know it's pot shirts. You know it's stone tool bits. It's little bits of bone. We know that stuff stone cold hey I said I had no jokes I had one stone cold I'll be here all week

04:44.17
archpodnet
Or at least for the next four minutes ah we know this stuff you guys. Ah, it would be so easy to see one broken piece of pottery that didn't fit with the rest 1 stone tool from a stone tool type that was not native that was not local. You know we would. We would see that instantaneously I would love to find it. We're all like that's the thing. It's like not only do we look? We actively look for different things your eye actually starts looking for different things because you get so bored of seeing the same stuff all the time. So. Something new would just show itself immediately. We're not going to miss it. You know and then if we found it. We're not going to keep it a secret. Ok. Don't worry. We're we're all more than self-centered enough to show the world as soon as we find something like this. It's not like hey guys I ah I go to the secret archeological archeology cabal you know and I'm like hey guys I yeah I found a piece of stone from from Africa but I found it. An Allmeck site and they're like quick quick hide it I got a place over here. It's in it's in the basement right? Do you think? do you think academics are going to do that. Are they going to do that or are they so worried about their career that they're going to publish all this stuff immediately.

06:16.36
archpodnet
I'll leave that one for you to decide. You know what? I'm saying there. There is no evidence none stop this lame story and you're like but but Africa. Africa is so close. Yeah, it's pretty close but you know what's a little closer than Africa the local old Meck who carve the stuff they're like right there they are very close. Ah. So you know I think maybe our note is that we just need to teach this a little more in like k through 12 the story. The olmech is fascinating. You know and dare I say it kind of mysterious. You know it is. They're kind of the first ones that that set in place this mesoamerican culture trajectory that continues for thousands of years and it is amazing. How many things stay similar. You know that you can see these obvious connections between something olma from a thousand bc and something maya from 700 a d seventeen hundred years later how many connections can you make.

07:51.86
archpodnet
From stuff from 300 a d that's seventeen hundred years ago you know it's it's amazing. How successful this set of ideas were this culture was really really amazing. So you know I do hope. That we teach this a little more in k through 12 I do hope there are more you know specials on the science channel and on this discovery channel just on the allme. You know if they did just the olmec and broke it down. It would be really really cool. And with that I bring this episode to a close because I need enough time to hide all those stones from Africa I'll see you guys next time.