Mysterious: The Olmec Heads
Much of what is known about any ancient society are phrased with terms like ‘think’, believe’, ‘may be’, ‘possible’, and so on. The existence of those terms in any theory or hypothesis, conclusion, or descriptive narrative of the past, etc., only says that the researchers do not know.
One example of that idea comes in the following theory:
That the other heads might have been discovered out of their original setting is suggested by the fact that very often they show signs of deliberate vandalism and most were buried sometime before 900 BCE in what appears to have been a purposeful ritual distancing with the past. (bold ours and from this link)
It is impossible to know where these heads originally lay or what their purpose was or if the vandalism was merely vandalism that teenagers and other people do. There are no suggestions being made by those acts of violence against those stone heads.
Then there is this idea:
The Olmec civilization is what is known as an archaeological culture. This means there is a collection of artifacts thought by archaeologists to represent a particular society. What is known about archaeological cultures is based on artifacts, rather than texts. (taken from this link)
That poses a problem as it is telling everyone that the ideas about any ancient culture or civilization is being either made up or attributed falsely to a group of people. We say that because there are no texts from the Olmecs stating that they made these stone heads.
With no written testimony, it is impossible and unprofessional to link an artifact to an ancient civilization. Dating does not help as C-14 or carbon dating does not work on rock. Any dating system that does only provides the supposed date of the rock not when it was carved.
A little history of the discovery of the Olmec heads provides very few details as there was a 70-year gap between the discovery of the first head to the first excavation of these heads.
The discovery of the first colossal head at Tres Zapotes in 1862 by José María Melgar y Serrano was not well documented nor reported outside of Mexico.[2] The excavation of the same colossal head by Matthew Stirling in 1938 spurred the first archaeological investigations of Olmec culture. Seventeen confirmed examples are known from four sites within the Olmec heartland on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Most colossal heads were sculpted from spherical boulders but two from San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán were re-carved from massive stone thrones. An additional monument, at Takalik Abaj in Guatemala, is a throne that may have been carved from a colossal head. This is the only known example from outside the Olmec heartland. (Taken from this link)
But this excavation and future ones on different heads did not shed any light on the Olmec people, as this quote shows:
The Olmec Civilization is one of the least understood and most mysterious in the ancient world (from this link)
Theories abound simply because there are no written records left behind by this civilization. That is a mystery in and of itself as researchers credit the Olmecs with having the first writing system in Mesoamerica, among other achievements.
However, it has also been suggested that some of the heads were buried shortly after their production in a process of ancestor worship or that they were defaced and buried by subsequent rulers to legitimize their claim to power and exclude competing lineages.(This link)
That theory does not do the Olmec artisans any favors and only shows the length researchers will go to stretch artifacts to fit their thinking or need to make everything uncovered related to a primitive religion.
What can lead to some confusion on the part of the readers about this mysterious civilization is that the dating is not accurate. One source claims the civilization may have existed between 1200 BCE — 400 BCE and another says 1200–500 C.E. Now we will admit that there may be a typographical error made but it does make things confusing.
A third source claims the Olmecs came together as a nation or civilization in 1600 BCE. So you can see little is known about these people which opens the door to our series theory that these heads may have been produced long before anyone came to Mesoamerica in the post-flood world.
We come to that theory because the methods described by researchers to construct these heads just do not work. Here is what they think took place:
The heads were sculpted using hard hand-held stones and it is likely that they were originally painted using bright colours…Facial details were drilled into the stone (using reeds and wet sand) so that prominent features such as the eyes, mouth, and nostrils have real depth. Some also have deliberately drilled dimples on the cheeks, chin, and lips. The heads all display unique facial features — often in a very naturalistic and expressive manner — so that they may be considered portraits of actual rulers. (from this link)
Please try to sculpt something or even chop wood from a handheld stone and see for yourself how difficult that would be especially to get such fine detail. Also, check your hand, wrist, arm, and shoulder for pain, and other injuries that could occur from repeated blows.
The results on the stone may not be as beautiful as the results of the sculptors of these stone heads received when they worked. keep in mind that these stone heads measure between 9.8 feet & 14.7 feet high and weigh as much as 8 tons (same source immediately above).
Also, these stones were supposed to have been transported from 60 miles away (same source) and then carved out of a single rock. There is no record of transportation method so your guess is as good as anyone’s as to how the ancient people got the stones to their final destination, that is if they weren’t moved by the Olmecs during their existence.
That moving theory is hard to accept as these are 8-ton stones (same source) and no records were left as to why they were moved, how they were moved, and if there was any damage done to the stones during those moves.
It is easier to accept and believe that the pre-flood world carved these stones. The many mysterious sites in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America lend credence to that idea over modern researchers’ theories.
The Olmecs are considered to be new stone age people with little to work with so it is highly unlikely that they carved these stones IF they actually existed. There is no real proof that they did.
As quoted earlier, the concept of this civilization is created out of what artifacts have been uncovered and not by any written record by the Olmecs themselves or any future Mesoamerican civilization.
Nearly everything we know about the Olmec has been discovered and pieced together by archaeologists.(this link)
In other words, although this was a great civilization that spawned other great civilizations, and nothing was written about them. That does not make sense and what we ‘know’ about these Olmecs is merely archaeologists’ creation and not fact.
This is strange because the present and other subsequent generations that came to North America after the pilgrims wrote about their ancestors even though the descendants have been absorbed into the modern North American civilization
That link takes you to 10 things those archaeologists have said about this supposed ‘first nation.’ None of that information is supported by any discovery of physical evidence or writings. Everything is read into the artifacts and the archaeologists cannot verify one thing they claim about this supposed Olmec nation.
What this means is that those heads could have come from the pre-flood world which is the logical solution to this mystery.
