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What we know about the New World is historically recent. The archaeological record shows that what we know about the Maya for example, spans about 120 years, and most of the actual scientific and field record covers about 30 years. We are speaking of a culture with a written language, difficult to translate, yes, but a language nevertheless.
The Incas had the quipus, knotted ropes which we have yet to figure out the meaning of. How about culture in the length and breadth of the Americas; that left sparse individual or collective implements; most did not leave anything.
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The Lords of the Fifth Sun
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The Great Maya Tombstone
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s holy lord of the B’aakal kingdom, Pakal was supreme in secular and religious matters, superseding the high priest and priestess, for the...
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The Olmec World
What we know about the Olmecs is shadowed by what we do not, most notably their origin and their name. The riddle further deepens when we look at their...
The Papantla Pole Dancers
the sight of a man dancing on a tiny round platform atop of a hundred foot-high wooden pole while playing a flute and a small drum is baffling, and...
The Lords of the Fifth Sun
This article was featured in Popular Archaeology.
It was dark, for there was no Sun when the gods met. They said, “who will bring the Sun?” For, after the fall...
The Great Maya Tombstone
This article was featured in Popular Archaeology.
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s holy lord of the B’aakal kingdom, Pakal was supreme in secular and religious matters, superseding the high priest and priestess, for the...
The Sand Bar After the Storm
This article was featured in Travel Thru History.
My earlier story about “The Grand Bahama Sand Bar” in Freeport, Grand Bahama, described a great and friendly place where people from near...
Totora Reed Raft of Peru
This article was featured in Travel Thru History.
Traveling on the dry wind swept northern coast of Peru, beside splendid landscape, one finds interesting ways of how people make a...
