UT News
Posted on 12/09/2022 8:45:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Evidence for the earliest known Maya calendar has been found in San Bartolo, Guatemala, by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. While excavating murals at a site in San Bartolo, two fragments were found and pieced together to form the notation "7 Deer," which dates back more than 2,000 years to 300 B.C., several centuries older than previously obtained evidence...
"The Maya calendar is one of the most distinctive and well-known features of the culture and of traditional Mesoamerican peoples. It was in use for centuries before the arrival of Europeans, and some of it is still being used among indigenous Maya communities in Guatemala," said David Stuart, a professor of art history who discovered the fragments. "But its origins have long been murky. The discovery of the painted fragment at San Bartolo allows us to establish a good date of 300 B.C., which is far earlier than any date we had before." ...
Alongside the discovery of the calendar, researchers found 10 other text fragments that reveal an established writing tradition, multiple scribal hands, and murals combining texts with images from an early ritual complex. Stuart was also part of the team that discovered the site of San Bartolo in 2001.
"Before this, many assumed that the Maya simply borrowed an older system from other nearby cultures. Now we know they had it as early as anyone else, if not earlier," Stuart said. "The Maya were key players in the development of Mesoamerica as a whole."
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Remember when Art Bell convinced so many the end of the earth coincided with the end of the maya calendar? That was some goofy stuff seems like it was supposed to be 2012. Still waiting
I bet Art helped sell a lot of emergency food and C-Crane radios to the fools that bought into that Mayan calendar stuff.
Not me though.
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I was still stocked up from Y2K!
Nobody but God the father knows when the end will come. Matthew 24:36.
Excavations Uncover Headless Life-Size Maya Statue
Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (Inah) Have Uncovered a Headless Statue at the Maya City of Oxkintok
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/12/excavations-uncover-headless-life-size-maya-statue/145499
The same calendar that gave an end date of the World at 2012, thus spawning Gen Z…the finale generation?
There was/is a Mac program called Chac that would/will generate the glyphic equivalent of any date, and the author of the program noted that an immense pile of crud (not exactly his words) had been written about the Mayan calendar. He wasn’t even talking about the alleged prophetic uses of it. :^)
Archaeology Magazine reveals the year’s most exciting finds
January/February 2023
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/494-2301/features/11026-top-10-discoveries-of-2022
Inside a Pharaoh’s Coffin
Cairo, Egypt
Aztec Offerings
Mexico City, Mexico
The Birth of Venus
Willendorf, Austria
World’s Oldest Straws
Maikop, Russia
Neolithic Hunting Shrine
Jibal al-Khashabiyeh, Jordan
Earliest Maya Calendar Date
San Bartolo, Guatemala
Tomb of the Craftworkers
Huarmey, Peru
On the Origin of Cities
Lagash, Iraq
Oldest Buddhist Temple
Barikot, Pakistan
Ship at the Bottom of the World
Weddell Sea, Antarctica
That’s a BIG coin. 32+ oz. Nice.
Researchers are puzzled by an inscription at the bottom of the calendar which reads: “Courtesy of your friends at the Bank of Mesoamerica.”
lol
That was some nutty anachronistic modern superstition that spawned that — which is appropriate, considering that Gen Z and its parents appear to be governed and manipulated by superstitions fit only for the very gullible.
In 2004, I attended a guided tour of the ancient Mayan city at Chichen Itza, Mexico. The tour guide, a descendent of the Mayans, was quite impressed with his ancestry, and made no secret of his disdain for the Europeans. He actually claimed Isaac Newton was assisted by the Mayans in his development of calculus. IOW, he stole the concept from the Mayans.
Hey look! It is October!
Heh, IOW, he was a bigot and ignoramus.
LOL! I still have two booklets on why the Rapture will be in 1988!
Never believed a word of it.
My dad was really big into all of that and had those same books probably - and passed them off to me as well.
I didn’t argue with him - but I did disagree. I told him “Well, if the world ends for everyone in 1988, or it just ends for us when we die - we need to be ready!” On that we could both agree on.
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He died in 1988 after a short illness.
Maybe an hour before he died he said “Well, like I’ve always said. The best day of my life will be the day I die and get my crown in heaven!”
“That’s true dad - but it’s going to suck for the rest of us.”
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