Bowls of Fingers, Baby Victims, More Found in Maya Tomb

National Geographic ^ | 7-21-2010 | John Roach

[Renfield]

From last year, but I searched and didn't find this article on FR.

[Renfield]

Maya ping

[Mmogamer]

In before the El Zotz!

[Beckett08]

Ping for after church

[ecomcon]

The final abode of the Zotted. EL ZOTZ!

[Tijeras_Slim]

The indigenous do love their bling.

[Chainmail]

Three cheers for "cultural diversity"!

Wonder if the current residents are at all thankful for the gift of the European invasion? Certainly the owners of the fingers and teeth and the parents of those infants would have wished that they arrived earlier...

[bgill]

Teeth bling is hardly a lost art. That's a 150K grill Lil Wayne is flashing. And they say you can't take it with you.

[Popman]

I always find it amazing people buy into the 2012 Maya calendar devised by a people who saciface babies,pull beating hearts out of live people, ritual killing by the thousands

I don't get it

[muawiyah]

It clearly presages the coming of the internet ~ finger bones ~ all that's left of a myriad of devotees; young babies who were cut down before they could live "off net", and worse ZOTZ!

Great Turtle? I have this Apple Mouse and doggone if it doesn't look like a turtle ~

Is this a real article?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Probably they don’t.
The European invasion wiped out 97 percent of the population.

[ghost of nixon]

Three cheers for "cultural diversity"!

...note the not so subtle excuses made for the child sacrifices: the children couldn't speak yet, so they were not yet considered human...

[Chainmail]

Ah yes - And some of the diseases they had got back to Europe too.

Nonetheless, the human sacrifice incidence dropped a bit, post-invasion.

[montag813]

Sounds like Mel Gibson got it right in ‘Apocalypto’, or perhaps didn’t go far enough. The “Aztlan” racists are always telling us how the Mayan civilization was peaceful, worshipped the stars in harmony, etc. B.S.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

According to some historians, syphilis was the New World's gift to Europe, in return for small pox, influenza and measles, among others.

[Lockbar]

LOL!!!!!!

[muawiyah]

I don’t think there’s been a book in the last 50 years still pushing the old “Mayans were ruled by astronomer kings”

[muawiyah]

The Americas had had a problem with hanta virus for thousands of years. That's what killed off the Indians AND delayed European invasion and settlement for a good century and a half after Columbus' voyages.

In what is now the East Coast of the United States, for example, the Indians OUTNUMBERED the newcomers until about 1648 ~ that's when a particularly bad winter combined with a slightly higher than normal incidence of several communicable diseases (probably could add in the flu to the situation), boosted the death rate among Indians and Europeans right through the roof.

The big difference between the two groups wasn't natural resistance ~ it was far simpler ~ Europeans could ship in an indefinite resupply of human beings, which they promptly did.

There are a number of good books on the market that cover the American population catastrophe of the 16th and 17th centuries.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Mann, the historian, says the big difference was the lack of resistance. Only a comparative handful of Europeans arrived between 1519 and 1623. The indigenous population dropped from about 25 million to about 700,000 in about 100 years, a 97 percent reduction.
Hantavirius was called “Cocolitli” by central Americans. Small pox was the chief killer and is described unmistakably in 16th century drawings.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“the coming of the internet ~ finger bones”

All digital!”