[Beowulf9]

"It is always frustrating to me when a newspaper or journal reports on something like this and they do not include a picture. ARRRRG!"

[Red_Devil 232]

Thank You! Those are not pets!

[camle]

square teeth??? oh well, bet they’d give the viking kitties some pause...

[Elsie]

PRAISE Moroni!!

The BoM is TRUE!!!!

[spyone]

When I see those images, I find similarities with Indian, Asian, and Pacific NW native Indian art.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks B for the pic! From the hard drive:

The Olmec and the Shang
by Claire Liu
tr. by Robert Taylor

Last year, in a book entitled Origin of the Olmec Civilization, Professor Mike Xu, a Chinese who teaches in the foreign languages department at the University of Central Oklahoma, proposed a hypothesis which aroused a storm of controversy in archeological circles. In Xu's view, the first complex culture in Mesoamerica may have come into existence with the help of a group of Chinese who fled across the seas as refugees at the end of the Shang dynasty. The Olmec civilization arose around 1200 BC, which coincides with the time when King Wu of Zhou attacked and defeated King Zhou, the last Shang ruler, bringing his dynasty to a close.