Originally posted by King Castle
what are the theories?
Originally posted by Wikipedia
Decline
It is not known with any clarity what caused the eventual extinction of the Olmec culture. It is known that between 400 and 350 BCE, population in the eastern half of the Olmec heartland dropped precipitously, and the area would remain sparsely inhabited until the 19th century.[16] This depopulation was likely the result of "very serious environmental changes that rendered the region unsuited for large groups of farmers", in particular changes to the riverine environment that the Olmec depended upon for agriculture, for hunting and gathering, and for transportation. Archaeologists propose that these changes were triggered by tectonic upheavals or subsidence, or the silting up of rivers due to agricultural practices.[17]One theory for the considerable population drop during the Terminal Formative period is suggested by Santley and colleagues (Santley et al. 1997) and proposes shifts in settlement location [relocation] due to volcanism instead of extinction. Volcanic eruptions during the Early, Late and Terminal Formative periods would have blanketed the lands and forced the Olmecs to move their settlements.[18]
Whatever the cause, within a few hundred years of the abandonment of the last Olmec cities, successor cultures had become firmly established. The Tres Zapotes site, on the western edge of the Olmec heartland, continued to be occupied well past 400 BCE, but without the hallmarks of the Olmec culture. This post-Olmec culture, often labeled Epi-Olmec, has features similar to those found at Izapa, some 330 miles (550 km) to the southeast.[19]
Originally posted by King Castle
what part of the americas did the aztecs and mayans come from?
Originally posted by King Castle
what are they paying you to use it, do you have vested interest? 😬
no?
take 4 seconds to look something up? nobody is going to give you as detailed an answer on a forum as you will get on wiki, which also gives you more links for answers you are looking for
whats your beef?
While Wikipedia is generally not a direct source for supporting information/research in a college level research assignment it is an excellent way to find actual sources by looking at the sources the pages cite.
It has gotten far better about unsupported information and troll contributions over the last few years.
Re: "MYSTERY OF THE ANASAZI: COULD THEY HAVE BEEN WHITE?"
Originally posted by Quiero Motathese people crack me up. I read this angry neo-nazi posting on a youtube video about all the crap whites invented and lesser races stole from them and claimed as their own - things like the Indian civilization - and how whites have higher IQs according to the research he was quoting, lynn i presume. When someone pointed out that askhenazi jews and east asians had higher IQs according to the same studies, he seemed to have a stroke.
"[b]For over a century, the mysterious ruins of the cliff dwellings in Nevada and elsewhere in the Western USA have baffled archeologists and historians. Square stone structures were foreign to the Amerinds, and local Indian legends themselves claimed that the buildings were first created by a mysterious people called the Anasazi, who inhabited the area before the Amerinds.Given the "Lineage X' and other skeletal evidence proving the existence of Whites in America, either prior to or at the very least simultaneous with, the Amerinds, a strong circumstantial case could be made for White origins of the very European looking buildings which are currently shown off to tourists as Amerind created structures. Only a racial examination of surrounding gravesites will provide the final answer to the issue.
There are hundreds of similar structures to be found all over the US South West: while all are attributed to Amerinds, the question can be rightly asked: if Amerinds did indeed build these structures, why were they living in buffalo skin tents when Europeans colonized that country after the 1500s?