{"id":12775,"date":"2023-05-22T15:49:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T15:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12775"},"modified":"2023-05-23T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:51:41","slug":"maya-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/22\/maya-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/long-hidden-ruins-of-vast-network-of-maya-cities-could-recast-history\/ar-AA1brDLb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Washington Post via MSN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Long-hidden ruins of vast network of Maya cities could recast history<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Charlotte Lytton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Maya Civilization Explained in 11 Minutes\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YW0rLAX3y-c?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Beneath 1,350 square miles of dense jungle in northern Guatemala, scientists have discovered 417 cities that date back to circa 1000 B.C. and that are connected by nearly 110 miles of \u201csuperhighways\u201d \u2014 a network of what researchers called \u201cthe first freeway system in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientist say this extensive road-and-city network, along with sophisticated ceremonial complexes, hydraulic systems and agricultural infrastructure, suggests that the ancient Maya civilization, which stretched through what is now Central America, was far more advanced than previously thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mapping the area since 2015 using lidar technology \u2014 an advanced type of radar that reveals things hidden by dense vegetation and the tree canopy \u2014 researchers have found what they say is evidence of a well-organized economic, political and social system operating some two millennia ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discovery is sparking a rethinking of the accepted idea that the people of the mid- to late-Preclassic Maya civilization (1000 B.C. to A.D. 250) would have been only hunter-gatherers, \u201croving bands of nomads, planting corn,\u201d says Richard Hansen, the lead author of a<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/ancient-mesoamerica\/article\/lidar-analyses-in-the-contiguous-miradorcalakmul-karst-basin-guatemala-an-introduction-to-new-perspectives-on-regional-early-maya-socioeconomic-and-political-organization\/31075DFA8ADBAA5E7C7320CA6DB93E5E\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0about the finding that was published in January and an affiliate research professor of archaeology at the University of Idaho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/long-hidden-ruins-of-vast-network-of-maya-cities-could-recast-history\/ar-AA1brDLb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at MSN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post via MSN Long-hidden ruins of vast network of Maya cities could recast history by Charlotte Lytton Beneath 1,350 square miles of dense jungle in northern Guatemala, scientists have discovered 417 cities that date back to circa 1000 B.C. and that are connected by nearly 110 miles of \u201csuperhighways\u201d \u2014 a network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}