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The great Maya "white road" that connected the cities of Coba and Yaxuna
Archaeology Magazine ^
| May/June 2020
| Jason Urbanus
Posted on 08/02/2020 2:06:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/02/2020 2:06:54 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/02/2020 2:07:30 PM PDT
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2banana
(Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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08/02/2020 2:08:41 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: 2banana
Isn't everything?
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posted on
08/02/2020 2:08:55 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
To: SunkenCiv; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
I don’t mind the Mayans.
You get your kix or Route Xixty Xix.
To: SunkenCiv
Pity they never figured out the wheel.
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posted on
08/02/2020 2:20:06 PM PDT
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katana
To: SunkenCiv
Many lost villages
Nothing sadder than a lost village.
Where do I belong?
Does anyone know where Im supposed to be?
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posted on
08/02/2020 2:21:12 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: blueunicorn6
Somewhere a lost village is missing its idiot.
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posted on
08/02/2020 2:23:36 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
To: katana
Pity they never figured out the wheel. They did. They made toys with wheels. It's a mystery why they didn't use wheels for other purposes. Maybe they were impractical for use in the jungle generally. Thanks to lidar knowledge of the Mayans is expanding tremendously. Maybe wheeled vehicles will someday be discovered.
To: Bernard Marx
I can understand a travois on the prairie. Hugely efficient being pulled by a dog, or whatever, over the grasses. But if you’ve built a road you’d think they would have looked at their toys and said “Hmmmmm”. Even their calendar was a wheel. “It’s a mystery”.
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posted on
08/02/2020 2:37:51 PM PDT
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katana
To: Bernard Marx
What else can we use that round thing for? I know! Our calendar!
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posted on
08/02/2020 3:13:22 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: SunkenCiv
60 mile road?
Rome could build that in a day.
(Well, maybe 30 days, depends on the width and how many bridges...)
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posted on
08/02/2020 3:14:15 PM PDT
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nicollo
(I said no!)
To: nicollo
Actually, a unique aspect of Roman road building wasn’t just the engineering, it was the deep legal code that guided it, its uses, its repair and its interchange w/ private property.
I’m guessing the Mayan kings just pointed and the road was built that direction.
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posted on
08/02/2020 3:16:33 PM PDT
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nicollo
(I said no!)
To: Bernard Marx
What makes the wheel useful is having domesticated animals that can pull a wagon. They didn’t have horses or oxen.
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08/02/2020 3:16:48 PM PDT
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SauronOfMordor
(A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
To: Bernard Marx; katana
Two words: No horses
Without draft animals, the wheel is less useful, particularly if you have options that work. Without a need driving change, people will stick with what works.
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08/02/2020 3:32:01 PM PDT
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GreenLanternCorps
(Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
To: SauronOfMordor
Great minds think alike...
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posted on
08/02/2020 3:33:15 PM PDT
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GreenLanternCorps
(Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
To: GreenLanternCorps
“Two words: No horses”
One word: Human.
There is a reason wheelbarrows have wheels. And why shopping carts don’t have skids to use when crossing flat floors. And that reason is NOT “Horses”.
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posted on
08/02/2020 3:38:01 PM PDT
by
Mr Rogers
(Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: SunkenCiv
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08/02/2020 3:38:53 PM PDT
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PAR35
To: GreenLanternCorps
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08/02/2020 3:42:23 PM PDT
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katana
To: SunkenCiv
I’m curious about the plaster material they used for paving—how durable it was, how they maintained it, and just plain what it looked like.
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