Many, many moons ago I had a double college major of Spanish and archaeology. Eventually I realized that archaeology would never find a mortgage. As part of the studies, I was able to participate in a Central American Mayan excavation. When I first started reading and studying the Maya, there was much speculation that the Maya were very peaceful, trading between great City States. I did not argue with professors back then that, being human, there might be a few City States that wanted more than just trade. Later on some of the City States that lasted longer, well, we discovered they were building walls around their area. Since walls were a later development in the overall history of the City, one could wonder just what made them think of, have to build walls. Yes, even the Maya made war on each other.
The Maya accomplished amazing things. They built observatories and tracked the planets and the stars. They tracked Venus for over 400 years. Did you know that Venus, from our view, has phases where it is brighter? No, theydid not have the scientific method, but they sure were interesting.
I wanted to go into archaeology as history was and is my passion.
But I was told before joining that it wouldn’t pay the bills and so I went for engineering instead. Sometimes I do regret it, but only sometimes :)