Maya

The Mayan Calendar Has Been Solved! - Ep 289

We’ve got a partial theme today but we start with 9000 year old bread making in the near east! We then go to Maya country for a double header. We start with 4000 year old fishing canals build buy the predecessors to the Maya and then talk about a possible solution to the Maya long count calendar.

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The Strange and Suspicious Career of Dr. Andrew Kinkella - Ep 271

This week we continued our APN Host Interview series with Dr. Andrew Kinkella, the fantastic host of The Pseudo-Archaeology Podcast and one of the co-hosts of the CRM Archaeology Podcast. Andrew has done so many cool things throughout his career including excavating in Mayan Cenotes in Belize, working as a Community College Professor in California, and talking head on Discovery Channel style documentaries. After we chat about all that, we look at a recent news article about the supposed red-headed giants of Lovelock Cave in Nevada. Spoiler Alert, they weren’t real!

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Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica - Ep 252

Today Chris talks to the editors of a fascinating new book about animals and their representation and symbolism in ancient Mesoamerica. We talk about things like frogs that soak in water through their bellies and animals wearing clothes…and what that means! Ancient people in this area were very connected to their surroundings and observed everything with amazing clarity.

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