How dare you?
Posted on 07/01/2021 12:56:54 PM PDT by algore
Human fecal matter uncovered from a lake in Guatemala reveals the Maya population living in the ancient city of Itzan declined during four different periods over the course of 3,300 years - and climate change was to blame.
A team of scientists led by McGill University found the fecal matter in sediments in Laguna Itzan, which confirmed droughts plagued the area from 90 to 280 AD, 730 to 900 AD and 1350 to 950 BC, all of which saw the Maya population drop.
The team also determined there was a very wet period from 400 to 210 BC, 'something which has received little attention until now,' which also impacted the size of the group.
The 'record implies a human presence on the Itzan escarpment about 650 years before the archaeological record confirms it,' reads the study published in Quaternary Science Reviews.
Researchers determined the Maya continued to occupy the area, although in smaller numbers, after the so-called 'collapse' between 800-1000 AD, when it had previously been believed that drought or warfare caused the entire population to desert the area.
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The Mayans could have saved themselves if only they had tens of trillions of dollars to spend!
All of that human sacraficin’
What a s***ty job!
How dare you?
So, that ancient practice of Mayan Shamans ‘removing’ still beating hearts from young slaves for the purpose of sacrifice had no effect on population totals?
Oh. Okay.
I’m getting at poopachino, you want you want one gorgeous?
Damn SUVs.
McGill.
Nuff said.
Wow. All I can tell from my fecal deposits is if I had corn last night.
Of course they did.
“What do you do?”
“Oh, I’m a poopoligist.”
Interesting. I bet you really know your sh!t.
It seems that cacao was a major part of their means of transacting business. I wonder if the climate variations hurt their chocolate production. Could have been done in by a series of Chocolate Depressions.
I know the Aztecs did that. I’ve never heard about the Mayas. Yes they did human sacrifices but of the type the Aztecs did. Who did it an alosmt industrila scale. That’s why Cortes had so many Indian allies.
And stopped driving those fanged SUVs.
tree cutters were they ?¿
If only they sacrificed more people to the Gods.
The climate change was probably caused by the huge carbon exhausts from the Mayan Moon Rockets they launched in the hot summer of 500 AD. That, along with the deforestation of the Cedars of Lebanon by the Romans. Those big plants were not there anymore to scrub "bad" CO₂ from the air.
In Truth, they selected an old man that had lost his mind as their leader.
All very predictable
First we have to leave our fecal matter where the archeologists can find it.
Mayans fell because of their reliance on SUVs. Sacrifice of Unfortunate Victims.
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