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nighthawkdenny t1_j1jpgo8 wrote
Dudes’ got dreds…
Orqee t1_j1jppcg wrote
Did the seek out only new Life or new civilizations to? - am asking for Picard.
MerchantOfUndeath t1_j1jqh0z wrote
Zerahemla??
st3ll4r-wind t1_j1jr63w wrote
Crazy that the Mayans are still around.
Netherese_Nomad t1_j1jxoim wrote
No, the Mormons are still wrong. the idea of wooden submarines lit by magic rocks is still stupid.
MerchantOfUndeath t1_j1jxt1d wrote
Leave it to the Netherese to defy divinity.
sonicjigglebath t1_j1k5u9t wrote
Who was the guy on the JRE that was going on and on about LiDAR?
Matisaro t1_j1k7zdw wrote
His people call him Kukulkan.
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The_Weirdest_Cunt t1_j1k87l5 wrote
You seen the new black panther movie? Apparently the Mayans just turned into fish people
Dhrnt t1_j1k8mf4 wrote
Graham Hancock.
armadillocrossing22 t1_j1k8ykl wrote
This is clearly irony
As if any mormon hasnt already heard of the CES letter 10 years ago
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downvotemydumbass t1_j1kao41 wrote
Good for you
megalon43 t1_j1kcmmp wrote
Yeah, I thought they all went extinct in 2012.
Rosebunse t1_j1kdh6e wrote
I knew a few people in high school who still identify as Mayan. They were originally from Mexico, but they were from a region where it was pretty common.
Rosebunse t1_j1kdlu2 wrote
One of the weirder controversies around the new Black Panther film is that, apparently, the guy they got to play Namor looks too, well, non-white for certain South American audiences.
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Phytanic t1_j1kenbq wrote
this dude is at best a "psuedoarcheologist", which IMHO is a more PR-friendly term for "raving conspiracy theorist who uses circumstantial evidence in an attempt to prove something that does not hold up against logic." AKA Whatever this guy does, know that any sort of "analysis" and expansion of ideas is going to be rather questionable.
Phytanic t1_j1keou8 wrote
What does the Java Runtime Environment have to do with LiDAR?
skittlesmcgee33 t1_j1kezsn wrote
Crazy. What language do they speak? Do we have anyone who can translate?
Michael_Pitt t1_j1kf5ov wrote
Open the article
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Send_noose_not_nudes t1_j1kflc8 wrote
Damn i wonder what kind of diet they are on?
fread9999 t1_j1kfrkx wrote
That is always right
danfish_77 t1_j1kfwmf wrote
What you think the civilization declined and all the people died out? Wait until you hear about the Chinese, Indians, Romans, Greeks, Persians, Mesopotamians, and Egyptians, then...
Mictlantecuhtli t1_j1kgim7 wrote
So this article just ignores a century and a half of archaeological research?
XXLpeanuts t1_j1khgvd wrote
You can pretty much assume that for anyone on the JRE now days.
Far-Whereas-1999 t1_j1kjf0t wrote
Graham Hancock, but that guy is a quack.
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AffectionateHippo242 t1_j1kl2uf wrote
Kazumadesu76 t1_j1km14x wrote
Were they hoping he'd be conquistador colored?
MacaroniBandit214 t1_j1kmg7m wrote
Yucatec and it’s still spoken in some regions
Scarlet109 t1_j1kmhz8 wrote
Rosebunse t1_j1kn8hk wrote
Basically, yeah. The Mexican film industry has a major problem with colorism.
MetaBotch t1_j1knjoj wrote
Considering he had no Spanish ancestry he should look more indigenous.
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Peterism t1_j1kozyn wrote
I watched Apocalypto too!!
Rosebunse t1_j1kp9yv wrote
Well, yes, that makes sense. Of course he is going to look non-European. But, again, the South American film industry has a problem with colorism. Frankly, I think he looks like a snack.
AverageJoe287 t1_j1kpbm2 wrote
But his enemies call him Namor
optimusjprime t1_j1kqedk wrote
Come again? What is your train of thought?
otasi t1_j1kqo17 wrote
/sprays water bottle
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McNultysHangover t1_j1kvj6p wrote
The feather serpent god.
ProjectBadass- t1_j1kwlqo wrote
I'm not sure if you're being facetious but there are a lot of white, European descended South Americans.
ProjectBadass- t1_j1kwo7q wrote
He's a journalist
valentc t1_j1l1upi wrote
In what way is this man a journalist? He seems like a hack that got lucky.
FalseRegister t1_j1l60i9 wrote
What a coincidence they find them after the release of the Black Panther movie...
Ineptmonkey t1_j1l6mej wrote
Racism and colorism
Ineptmonkey t1_j1l6n9g wrote
Racism and colorism
throwawaygreenpaq t1_j1l744z wrote
That’s rather cool. History is fascinating.
borilo9 t1_j1l888e wrote
We just don't take kindly to being cheaply pandered to
rmovny_schnr98 t1_j1l9bcz wrote
He's a great storyteller and I love listening to him rambling about some ancient civilization that only he knows about. But it's mostly fantasy. He's like a modern day's Karl May.
rmovny_schnr98 t1_j1l9gdq wrote
Definitely IIFYM
Dusk_v731 t1_j1l9zyo wrote
I was in Guatemala just last month, up north visiting Tikal and was completely unable to converse with our cab driver as he was speaking a mix of Spanish and Mayan. A member of our group spoke Spanish, but she could only understand bits and pieces of what was being said.
ed190 t1_j1lbi85 wrote
Many in Guatemala do that
ed190 t1_j1lblv4 wrote
I’m from El Salvador and tikal is amazing. There are many Guatemalans that identify as Mayan descendants
santaclausonvacation t1_j1lc3sm wrote
Ive been here. I took a bus from TIkal to a village deep in the rainf forest. From there we hired a Xatero (which is a guy who collects Xate for floral arrangements) he knew the way and we hiked 3 days to the Dante Complex which is the tallest pyramid in the world (depending on how you measure). On the way we walked along the causeways, saw several ancient pyramids and village ruins and had a really good time.
All in all it took us 10 days to get there, stay for a few days in the camp, and hike back. Highlights were the workers there who were really cool, the jungle which is very overgrown, and the animals we saw like a big ass snake, a bunch of monkeys, etc...
santaclausonvacation t1_j1lc96v wrote
yeah, this place has been being excavated and studied forever. I went here and it is a well studied and established site. Not new.
JackieDRabbit t1_j1lf3mm wrote
Are they the anunaki?
fingerpaintswithpoop t1_j1ljad8 wrote
Define “pandering.”
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Lord_Shisui t1_j1ljs60 wrote
pandering
>gratify or indulge (an immoral or distasteful desire or taste or a person with such a desire or taste). "newspapers are pandering to people's baser instincts"
GoTouchGrassPlease t1_j1ll2kb wrote
Are you telling us InterestingEngineering.com isn't the best source for archeology news?
TrippiesAngeldust t1_j1lloyz wrote
everyone i know who identifies as mayan speaks mam. (from the quetzaltenango and huehuetenango departments) i think it's so cool, especially when teaching siblings or cousins, they'll just switch over to their language/dialect in arguments and private conversations and nobody can understand them. were your classmates from chiapas? did any of them speak a dialect as well?
ProjectBadass- t1_j1lrvni wrote
That's his profession?
Windyowl t1_j1lv3at wrote
Something like 15% of Mayan ruins had been excavated. There’s little money and resources to keep uncovering them like the ones operated as main tourist attractions.
Dangerous_Shirt9593 t1_j1lvoyc wrote
I visited Tikal just before Star Wars came out. For me it was mind blowing. There is a pyramid you could whisper on top and hear it clearly on the bottom. There was also modern graffiti in the temples. I am not sure if you are still allowed to climb the pyramids but if you are it is a must see
stegg88 t1_j1m005o wrote
This is exactly my feeling. Like i know its not true but he tells a great story regardless!
Leodan15 t1_j1m1urf wrote
Only the media didn’t like it. The audience (in Mexico) loved Tenoch playing a lead in a marvel movie.
Chicago1871 t1_j1m2kr2 wrote
My one my uncles from marriage speaks maya fluently with his family. Its pretty neat.
iamskrb t1_j1m44y9 wrote
Yucatec isn't spoken in Guatemala but over 20 other Mayan languages are.
SouthernFriedGreens t1_j1m4h4r wrote
South America has its native indians too. Kind of strange to think about the influx of Indian indians into the Americas...
onFilm t1_j1m9itd wrote
Include Latin America in there too.
MacaroniBandit214 t1_j1m9rz5 wrote
It’s the main Mayan language in Mexico
iamskrb t1_j1ma5u5 wrote
I know but the article refers to a site in Guatemala.
420AndMyAxe t1_j1mbg9t wrote
Joe Rogan Experience
valentc t1_j1mbpra wrote
He hasn't been published in anything significant since the 90s.
Why bring it up? What relevance does this have to him being a pseudo scientist?
MacaroniBandit214 t1_j1me6ie wrote
And my comment said “some regions”
mamamiatucson t1_j1mfaln wrote
The thousands of Unaccompanied minors that seek asylum here in the US speak literally dying Mayan dialects- they learn Spanish for survival but we have these living artifacts we could learn from, here now. As a system we are failing to preserve our own heritage
glurtle_skletch t1_j1mgdcz wrote
People get very insecure about their Broe Jogan, they are always on the defensive about the qualifications of the loons he brings on his show. As if that stops any of us from knowing they're loons just hearing them talk.
glurtle_skletch t1_j1mgvi9 wrote
Sounds like you didn't leave the church and you do believe it. I left Catholicism but that doesn't mean I start defending the Church whenever another kid gets raped.
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acesilver1 t1_j1mq2qe wrote
They never went away. They’re the indigenous people of Guatemala, southern Mexico, etc. same with the indigenous of the US and the indigenous of the Andes descended from the Inca. What doesn’t exist anymore is an independent Mayan civilization or country/city state. But they never went extinct or were intermixed with non-native Americans. There are some indigenous groups from Latin America that have functionally gone extinct either through excess intermixing with the colonizers who came to their land or by dying through disease and conquest. An example is the Taino people of the Caribbean. Their descendants have some Taino ancestry but it’s mostly mixed with African and European and not many, if any, genetically homogenous Taino exist.
ProjectBadass- t1_j1muwty wrote
I replied to a post about him being a pseudo archeologist. He never claimed to be an archeologist. He's claimed to be a journalist.
cjbannister t1_j1n2o0w wrote
Belize too!
MedicalFoundation149 t1_j1n3aca wrote
There are, but Namor and his people would not be since since they are of purely pre-Columbian Mayans that cut themselves off from the outside world and thus didn't have the introduction of European genes that the rest of the Americas would receive over the next few centuries.
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guitar_boy826 t1_j1n7q6b wrote
What pandering?
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valentc t1_j1ne6sa wrote
Journalist : a person who writes for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or prepares news to be broadcast.
Hasn't done any of this since the 90s.
So I'll go with his Wikipedia description:
British writer who promotes pseudoscientific theories involving ancient civilizations and lost lands.
I feel the most important part of that is the word pseudoscientific
armadillocrossing22 t1_j1ngaox wrote
The guy saying "zarahemla" and "leave it to the netherese to defy divinity" is clearly joking and its annoying how everyone doesnt get it.
Ive been shit on by people my whole life for being mormon. Ive left and most of my family has left but theres just a smugness people have in shitting on it.
Obviously its not true, you have to be extremely gullible to believe in the church.
Im not defending the church im defending someone who is being ironic clearly.
Human-Helicopter-684 t1_j1nrejk wrote
Met full blooded Mayans on Mexico. Pretty cool
Swampberry t1_j1pmbps wrote
Romans and Mesopotamians aren't exactly people groups still around.
Swampberry t1_j1pmife wrote
>There are some indigenous groups from Latin America that have functionally gone extinct either through excess intermixing with the colonizers who came to their land
You're kinda making it sound like those people claiming immigration leads to genocide simply by people becoming "excessively mixed".
acesilver1 t1_j1pw339 wrote
What the Europeans did to indigenous American groups during the age of colonization was, in essence, genocide. Stealing land, toppling civilizations, conquest through guns and disease, forced conversions, mass killings… it was not simply “immigration” lol
And yes, intermixing between oppressive colonizing cultures and native cultures tends to lead to the erasure of native cultures.
danfish_77 t1_j1qnajy wrote
Their descendants are, though, which is what I was getting at
Bringbackdexter t1_j1r9yz4 wrote
Not to sound rude but why does it matter? Isn’t it true that much of South America is predominantly indigenous anyway? So it would seem that the only people who have an issue are the non-indigenous European South Americans.
Rosebunse t1_j1rh7pg wrote
Racism is something which can still effect people, especially in larger cities where there are fewer indigenous people.
autotldr t1_j1jio91 wrote
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 62%. (I'm a bot)
> As stated in the release, the researchers were mapping some of Guatemala when they stumbled across what they describe as a massive ancient Maya civilization.
> Another finding that contradicts notions that early Mesoamerican settlements tended to be sparsely populated is that the individuals who formerly resided in the settlements had been closely clustered.
> The researchers also discovered that the inhabitants of the civilization had constructed reservoirs and canals to move and store water for usage during dry spells.
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