Image by José Andrés Pacheco Cortés from Pixabay
lidar is some cool tech- really shows old settlements even if overgrown with vegetation- pretty cool that they have 6500 of them to explore now
The Mayan civilization was advanced for its time as were the Aztecs. Both were brutal as were their conquerors. The Mayan civilization collapsed due to climate change. It collapsed before one damn barrel of oil was produced from the ground by man. The Aztecs collapsed by the sword and musket of Spanish Conquistadors. Both of their blood lines still exist but not as a civilization nor tribe. They mixed with the Spanish Conquistadors. Today they are called Mexicans. I am quite familiar with them, I grew up on the border and married one, now 30 years plus. A lot of us white boys in Texas did. I guess I am a Texican.
Since when is "jungle forests" (which is a redundancy) a "type of terrain"?
All those amazing people disappeared.
It could never happen to us.
Yes. Very thick jungles around there.
Mayans were bloodthirsty like the Aztecs.
Built pyramids to cut out People’s hearts at the top in front of big crowds.
I read somewhere that only about 250 species of trees out of several thousand were native to the Amazon/rainforest and the rest were introduced at some point in time, whether by birds/bats or humans. While I could be wrong, it does make one wonder if these ancient settlements engaged in the intentional cultivation of some of the thousands of “non-native” tree species, especially those of fruiting or medicinal use. At the least, the discovery of more and more connected settlements, and the implied size of the human populations that built them, lend credence to a theory that the rainforest as ‘the lungs of the planet’ appears to be a more modern phenomenon than not.
I have been saying it for years now because of my own studies. The population estimates are way way under what the true population was. The population they claim would not have required almost total cultivation of central and south America. Just the amount of salt that was mined and processed blows their estimates out of the water. Man just does not exert effort without a need and demand. It was once all populated as densely as western Europe is now...
researchers from Tulane University have discovered over 6,500 unexplored ancient Mayan settlements hidden beneath dense Mexican jungle forests.
Tulane University is in Louisiana. I wonder how much grant money (from the US Government) was used in this research.
How about doing some research in the United States? Using US money in the US, perhaps?
Anytime I see a Mayan temple I wonder how many people’s heads were rolled down the steps after they had their hearts ripped out.
