Ivan Van Sertima

Ivan Van Sertima's Degrees

• PhD Anthropology Rutgers University

Why Is Ivan Van Sertima Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima was a Guyanese-born British associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States. 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 . While his Olmec theory has "spread widely in African American community, both lay and scholarly", it was mostly ignored in Mesoamericanist scholarship, and has been dismissed as Afrocentric pseudoarchaeology and pseudohistory to the effect of "robbing native American cultures."

Other Resources About Ivan Van Sertima

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Ivan Van Sertima?

Ivan Van Sertima is affiliated with the following schools:

• SOAS University of London
• Rutgers University