Ivan Van Sertima
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 15 years ago |
Date of birth | January 26,1935 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | British Guiana |
Date of died | May 25,2009 |
Died | Highland Park |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Spouse | Jacqueline Van Sertima |
Known for | Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories |
Africa | |
Job | Writer |
Anthropologist | |
Historian | |
Education | SOAS University of London |
University of London | |
Rutgers University | |
Books | Early America revisited |
The Golden Age of the Moor | |
Great Black Leaders | |
African Presence in Early Europe | |
Egypt Revisited | |
They came before Columbus | |
Field | Africana Studies |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 518325 |
Ivan Van Sertima Life story
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.