6/5/2023 0 Comments Ivan vansertima![]() ![]() "either completely ignored or generally dismissed by anthropologists, historians and other academic professionals.", Current Anthropology, Vol.38 (3), June 1997, accessed 20 January 2009. While his Olmec theory has "spread widely in African American community, both lay and scholarly", it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, or else dismissed as Afrocentric pseudohistory to the effect of "robbing native American cultures". ![]() He was best known for his Olmec alternative origin speculations, a brand of pre-Columbian contact theory, which he proposed in his book They Came Before Columbus (1976). ![]() Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – ) was a Guyanese-born associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States., Rutgers African-American Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees (2004)] ![]()
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