Posted on 05/14/2013 5:32:14 AM PDT by Perdogg
Bulldozers and backhoes have essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids, which survived millennia of storms, rain and wind only to succumb to a construction company seeking gravel for road fill.
The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology says the destruction was detected late last week, and only a small portion of the center of the pyramid mound was left standing, according to the Associated Press. 7Newsbelize.com, the website for TV channel 7 in the small Caribbean country, accompanied a handful of archaeologists to the site recent.
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Ut oh.
There was an Indian camp on a promontory overlooking the Cuyahoga Valley in Independence, Ohio. As kids, we found all sorts of stuff there. Kurtz Bros. stripped it all away for gravel.
We had a really ancient encampment in our neighborhood ~ grindstones, arrowheads, handaxes ~ stuff ~ and I got most of the big stuff PLUS their tribal meteorite ~ then they ran Interstate 70 through the site ruining not only any archaeological value it might have had but also the neighborhood!
Yup! That’s the kind of stuff we were finding as kids. There were a whole series of camps overlooking the Valley.
This is going to have new agers chewing at their limbs. They are super hot on the Myans and their pyramid structures (where they sacrificed human beings to their gods).
It’s super greedy to knock the pyramid (a sight seeing attraction) for road gravel.
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