Massive Mayan Society found under the jungle

[Cyclonepride]

This is really, really cool.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...3391373867e_story.html?utm_term=.48abf83af339

"Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala’s Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought."

 

[ISUAgronomist]

The article I read about it yesterday indicated that their population may have been closer to 20 million rather than the previous estimates of 1-2 million.

LiDAR is a pretty cool technology.

 

[dirtyninety]

The Mayans sound like really mean people. Probably Xenophobic too.

 

[FerShizzle]

The Mayans sound like really mean people. Probably Xenophobic too.

I know you are joking, but I should point out that at the time of the Mayans, literally every person on earth was xenophobic. It was the norm. It’s a learned behavior that dates back to our primitive tribal days and beyond. There isn’t a lot of difference between an animal being territorial and xenophobia.

 

[FerShizzle]

This is really, really cool.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...3391373867e_story.html?utm_term=.48abf83af339

"Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala’s Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought."

It is going to be incredible how much scientific advances allow us to better understand earth and the history of mankind in the 21st century. We forget how close we are to the beginning of this technology boom relative to history and the future.

 

[CyForPresident]

Crazy that people built stuff like that with Dinosaurs running around eating them

 

[Lexclone]

Title made me think (hope) that a society of underground dwelling Mayans was found beneath the jungle. This is still cool even if very slightly disappointing.

 

[Rural]

I thought it was crazy when they said the western half of Australia used to be part of Canada.

 

[Turn2]

The Mayans sound like really mean people. Probably Xenophobic too.

I don't know about that. Some say they had something special going on with the aliens. Just sayin'...

 

[SpokaneCY]

Crazy that people built stuff like that with Dinosaurs running around eating them

Dinos won. Mayans gone and good riddance. Worthless bunch those Mayans - just sitting around, doing jungle stuff. I don't know what that xenophobic stuff is, but those Mayans are bad people and we should never trust 'em.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Crazy that people built stuff like that with Dinosaurs running around eating them

Clearly you jest, but at any rate, it was probably sleestaks that were their biggest concern.

 

[runbikeswim]

I find the Mayan stuff fascinating. I love Mayan art too.

Just think in 2000 years someone will be studying the skyscrapers and arenas of our time.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Still remember the Mayan tour guide at Chichén Itzá (a charming and engaging fellow). A rather short dude and I remember one of his lines "Mayan's, short in stature but big brains!"

He had seen my gf and I eavesdropping on his talk and waved us over to his group. Our guide was a dull dude from Mexico City, this Mayan local was like x100 times better. He had the knowledge, the pride and the personality. Hell, that was 20 years ago and I still remember the guy.

 

[Bret44]

They could build cool cities and art and ****, but they didn't know jack about calendars.

 

[isufbcurt]

Still remember the Mayan tour guide at Chichén Itzá (a charming and engaging fellow). A rather short dude and I remember one of his lines "Mayan's, short in stature but big brains!"

He had seen my gf and I eavesdropping on his talk and waved us over to his group. Our guide was a dull dude from Mexico City, this Mayan local was like x100 times better. He had the knowledge, the pride and the personality. Hell, that was 20 years ago and I still remember the guy.

Chichén Itzá was really really cool.

 

[bhutch65]

Tikal is also very cool. Sat on a Tiger ant hill. I'll never forget that.

Temple IV was the Yavin 4 rebel base(?) in Episode IV

 

[KnappShack]

History.com.....

Maya also experienced an earlier collapse, in the second century, about which scientists know even less. In a new study, based on the largest set of radiocarbon dates ever obtained from a single Maya site, a team of researchers argues that both collapses were preceded by similar patterns, as waves of social instability, warfare and political crises swept over the civilization and caused it to deteriorate.

 

[Cyclonepride]

History.com.....

Maya also experienced an earlier collapse, in the second century, about which scientists know even less. In a new study, based on the largest set of radiocarbon dates ever obtained from a single Maya site, a team of researchers argues that both collapses were preceded by similar patterns, as waves of social instability, warfare and political crises swept over the civilization and caused it to deteriorate.

Drought.

 

[ISUEmbassy]

Was lucky enough to get to visit Tikal last year. Truly amazing.