The Mayan Calenda/Archaeology question

[Dylon]

Hello all,
Im not too familiar with the History of the Mayan people or the Mayan Calenda for that matter but i was just wondering have there been any Mayan artifacts found to be younger than the Mayan calenda? I only ask because we know the mayan civilisation suddenly vanished, and maybe they just stopped adding to the calenda either when they vanished or maybe they just stopped in a to be continued sence, then vanished and never got around to doing it. Like i said i havent read too much into it and may appear to be a massive idiot here, but thanks

[Moon]

Graham Hancock has written on this subject and he claims other civilizations in the Americas used the same calendar for their years. I have to find the book and see what other peoples used it to post here.

[polaris]

this may just be semantics but...when you say the Mayan civilization "suddenly vanished", I really think you are referring to the abandonment of their cities - because there are millions of Mayans still living where they have always lived...they also continue to use their calendar.

Their calendar is 1,872,000 days long and is subdivided into more manageable periods of baktuns (144,000 days), katuns (7200), tuns (360), winals (20), kin (1) and 0.

This website (and its contributors) is probably the best one out there to get you started...
http://decipherment.wordpress.com/

[Dylon]

They would have had to have a reason to Abandon their cities. Something MUST of happened. You don't just pack up and leave a perfectly good city!

[Serene]

This may be a stupid question but has anyone ever tested those areas for any residue radioactivity ?

[polaris]

They would have had to have a reason to Abandon their cities. Something MUST of happened. You don't just pack up and leave a perfectly good city!

Yeah, they knew they could do nothing about the impending slaughter of their women and children, not to mention the loss of their land, culture and written records...by a more 'civilized' race (aka the Sumerians).

[Buzi-Blu]

Here is why:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/08/why-did-mayan-civilization-collapse-deforestation-and-climate-change/

[polaris]

I am sure everyone's heard of the acronym G-I-G-O.
Here's a key statement from the article, "Jared Diamond put forth a different sort of theory—that a prolonged drought, exacerbated by ill-advised deforestation, forced Mayan populations to abandon their cities...they found, severe reductions in rainfall were coupled with an rapid rate of deforestation, as the Mayans burned and chopped down more and more forest to clear land for agriculture. Interestingly, they also required massive amounts of wood to fuel the fires that cooked the lime plaster for their elaborate constructions—experts estimate it would have taken 20 trees to produce a single square meter of cityscape."

Where that hypothesis (not theory) breaks down is why would half starved people continue to cut down trees, remembering they didn't have any metal, just to make more buildings!

Suffice to say, it is still a mystery...

What is not mystery is that the Maya had prophecies about their impending doom...

[Corcaigh]

This may be a stupid question but has anyone ever tested those areas for any residue radioactivity ?

Good question! Anyone know..?

[Bob137]

My understanding of the Mayan civilization is that when they came into different time periods of their calendar, that they migrated to other areas all the way up into North America.. The remnants of civilizations such as the Hohokum, and the Mississippean's. This of course is oothers theories also, but they are based on a lot of good information, and the information is in other threads in Legendary Times Forums.

[polaris]

My understanding of the Mayan civilization is that when they came into different time periods of their calendar, that they migrated to other areas all the way up into North America.. The remnants of civilizations such as the Hohokum, and the Mississippean's. This of course is oothers theories also, but they are based on a lot of good information, and the information is in other threads in Legendary Times Forums.

I would like to suggest that all indigenous people of all the Americas share a common ancestor, and the continents South, Central and North were guided by ET's, the Sky People not unlike the Hebrew's Annunaki, the Africans, the Indians, and the Asians...

[Bob137]

I have read that theory also, and that they were call connected with MU, and that there has been much found in regards to Out of place artifacts-OOPART's, that show a common written language that is pre-Summerian.

[polaris]

There is a MU string on this site. It IMV that MU was a time before this count of 5 Earth Ages. Primarily the South Pacific. The ancient-ness of the indigenous Australians plays into this theme, as well as the Polynesians...