Mural Painted More Than 2,500 Years Ago Depicts Salt as an Ancient Maya Commodity at a Marketplace [Mayan Salt Trade 500 BC]

Science Tech Daily ^ | March 23, 2021 | Louisiana State University

[dragnet2]

It appears they were well fed back then.

[SunkenCiv]

They’re really just making margueritas.

[blueunicorn6]

Just think.....2500 years ago some guy tried to eat a cabbage with an ice cream scoop.

[dragnet2]

I think she just snatched a whole chicken out of that guys hands.

[SunkenCiv]

Well, the carton said “Cruciferous Vegetable flavor”.

[SunkenCiv]

IOW, the Mayans invented take out long before the white devil slavemasters!!! /rimshot

[rdl6989]

I hate to be stupid, but how do we know salt is the good in the image?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#16. It might be baked salt cakes, depending on the consistency of the ocean salt.

I never found any salt around the Tikal, Peten Mayan site. Only lime, which could be used in cooking if it was of good quality.

Salt would be a good trading product for inland tribes but I doubt the really inner Yucatan tribes had access to it on a regular basis, Jungle trails are hard enough to walk on with just sandals or even boots. Carrying a lot of salt back scores or even hundreds of miles to the interior just doesn’t make any physical sense.

[Kevmo]

Unattractive,fat woman in the marketplace.

Times have not changed much.

[SunkenCiv]

Check your FReepmail.

The find is unsurprising, considering that all humans need at least some salt (with iodine) to remain in good health and for that matter, to survive. More is needed the hotter the climate.

Sidebar: during the colonial period the Euro militaries specified an hourly water ration for desert duty. Everyone had used that figure, including the locals after they regained sovereignty.

The Israelis studied it, found out it was one fourth the actual requirement, and that was one reason the IDF soldiers fought without running out of fight. Quite a number of the fleeing Egyptians during the 1967 retreat across Sinai, not surprisingly, died of thirst rather than enemy fire.

[central_va]

Mayans were fat?

[central_va]

Corn based diet = mucho fatso’s

[SunkenCiv]

That’s why their civilization fell — and couldn’t get up. ;^)

[central_va]

Stone Temple Hoglets

[SunkenCiv]

I think they’re driving the main road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jPApGpQy9c