Others have tried to match the places described in the legends of the Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas) with individual locations in the Americas. It has also been claimed that from Olmec statues it appears that they had the custom of manipulating children's skull bones into a more pointed shape, which was a practice also seen among tribes in northeastern China.
也有人根據《山海經》的傳說，舉證某某神山就在今之美洲何處，把它們一一「對號入座」。也曾有人指出奧爾梅克的人像看似有「銳首」的習俗，與中國東北的部族同出一轍。