Who told you the people of Mexico don't resemble the Olmec heads?From what l've seen. It is often outsiders who have never set foot in Mexico that often make this claim that the Olmecs do not look like Mexicans.The common argument that the Olmecs were African, Polynesians or Samoans is simply that the heads depict people with wide noses and thick lips. The problem with those theories is that these facial features can be seen among millions of indigenous people in Mexico today. Mexico is home to one of the largest population of American Indians in the continent, next to countries, Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru.Another reason the Olmec heads do not depict Africans is the complete lack of prognathism. A "negroid trait" commonly seen in African people and nonexistent in Olmec artwork.Many People born in the United States seem to have a common misnomer that all people who live in Mexico today are Spaniards, while it may be true that Mexico was colonized by Spaniard centuries ago. People of Spanish descent are a minority in the country today. Most Mexicans are indigenous people. The facial features on the Olmec heads and their hundreds of small stone and jade artifacts they left behind are clear pieces of evidence that they were leaving behind their image for the world to see.They are the ancestors of modern Mexican people.

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