{"id":280018,"date":"2018-10-22T20:17:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/22\/this-major-discovery-upends-long-held-theories\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T20:17:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:17:07","slug":"this-major-discovery-upends-long-held-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/22\/this-major-discovery-upends-long-held-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"This major discovery upends long-held theories about the Maya civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"

instructor144<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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archaeologicalnews<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In the autumn of 1929, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband Charles flew across the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. With Charles at the controls, Anne snapped photographs of the jungles just below. She wrote in her journal of Maya structures obscured by large humps of vegetation. A bright stone wall peeked through the leaves, \u201cunspeakably alone and majestic and desolate \u2014 the mark of a great civilization gone.\u201c<\/p>\n

Nearly a century later, surveyors once again took flight over the ancient Maya empire, and mapped the Guatemala forests with lasers. The 2016 survey, whose first results were published this week in the journal Science<\/a>, comprises a dozen plots covering 830 square miles, an area larger than the island of Maui. It is the largest such survey of the Maya region, ever.<\/p>\n

The study authors describe the results as a revelation. \u201cIt\u2019s like putting glasses on when your eyesight is blurry,\u201d said study author Mary Jane Acu\u00f1a, director of El Tintal Archaeological Project in Guatemala. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Years ago I hauled myself by rope up the steep stairs to the top of the enormous pyramid at Coba. (stock photo below) The guide who was with me gestured panoramically, pointing out literally scores of suspiciously symmetrical hills stretching to the flat jungle horizon in every direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cPyramids,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cEvery one of them is a pyramid. Almost none have been excavated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s go to one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

He gave me the side eye.\u00a0\u201cThat would cost you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cName a price.\u201d<\/p>\n

He quoted me a price that was at the upper end of reasonable. In American dollars. I counted out the cash.<\/p>\n

He smiled.\u00a0\u201cOh,\u00a0 I should probably mention. They\u2019re all haunted.\u201d<\/p>\n

I smiled back.\u00a0\u201cEven better. Let\u2019s go!\u201d<\/p>\n

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instructor144: archaeologicalnews: In the autumn of 1929, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband Charles flew across the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. With Charles at the controls, Anne snapped photographs of the jungles just below. She wrote in her journal of Maya structures obscured by large humps of vegetation. A bright stone wall peeked through the leaves, \u201cunspeakably … <\/p>\n

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