New Mayan City found

[CaptainCrunch]

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/...emala-pacunam/

In what’s being hailed as a “major breakthrough” in Maya archaeology, researchers have identified the ruins of more than 60,000 houses, palaces, elevated highways, and other human-made features that have been hidden for centuries under the jungles of northern Guatemala.

Amazing.

[Timbo]

This is very cool.

[GoinAllTheWay]

nm....my question was clearly answered in the article.....

This is very cool. Man would that be neat to see firsthand. Right out of an Indiana Jones movie.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

nm....my question was clearly answered in the article.....

This is very cool. Man would that be neat to see firsthand. Right out of an Indiana Jones movie.

I don't know, unless you're Mayan, chances are they would have decapitated you, or cut your heart out, or tied you to a pole and shot you full of arrows during a dance.

They were big into that whole sacrifice thing.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I don't know, unless you're Mayan, chances are they would have decapitated you, or cut your heart out, or tied you to a pole and shot you full of arrows during a dance.

They were big into that whole sacrifice thing.

Sounds like they were more into the dismembered sacrifice thing actually.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Sounds like they were more into the dismembered sacrifice thing actually.

Depends on the reason for the sacrifice.

But they all involved blue paint, slow death and blood smearing, oh and in one type, making you bleed from the old genitalia.

[MoneyGuy]

This is terrible. Now I have to go to Guatemala.

[Incogneto]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

This is terrible. Now I have to go to Guatemala.

Tikal is amazing. I have never been to Chichen Itza, but apparetly Tikal is better an bigger. We spent 2 days there, and was never bored. Amazing place.

[Northendzone]

so this place is all inclusive then

[81MC]

So cool to be in a time where we are starting to learn about how much we didn't/don't know about the past. Thanks for posting this, really neat.

[KevanGuy]

Originally Posted by 81MC

So cool to be in a time where we are starting to learn about how much we didn't/don't know about the past. Thanks for posting this, really neat.

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and...ft-them-there/

Just when scientists thought they had this whole ancient human migration thing sort of figured out, a new discovery comes along to disrupt them.

A trove of more than 7,000 unearthed ancient stone tools now suggests early humans might have reached Asia earlier than previously thought – as much as 385,000 years ago.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by KevanGuy

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and...ft-them-there/

Just when scientists thought they had this whole ancient human migration thing sort of figured out, a new discovery comes along to disrupt them.

A trove of more than 7,000 unearthed ancient stone tools now suggests early humans might have reached Asia earlier than previously thought – as much as 385,000 years ago.

Human stone tools have been dated to at least 2.6 million years, I would be shocked if the earliest in Asia was only 385k years ago. either way I am fascinated by the subject.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Human stone tools have been dated to at least 2.6 million years, I would be shocked if the earliest in Asia was only 385k years ago. either way I am fascinated by the subject.

Established theories didn't have modern humans in Asia until about 50 thousand years ago. I think the theory behind the new evidence may be flawed, as it presumes only humans were using certain tools. Many hominid species existed prior to humans wiping them out / assimilating them.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by blankall

Established theories didn't have modern humans in Asia until about 50 thousand years ago. I think the theory behind the new evidence may be flawed, as it presumes only humans were using certain tools. Many hominid species existed prior to humans wiping them out / assimilating them.

Maybe I was dreaming but didn't they find million year old stone tools in India a few years ago?

[Knut]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Maybe I was dreaming but didn't they find million year old stone tools in India a few years ago?

similar disruptions occurred in Africa among the forebears of modern humans around the same time. But the timing of the Indian transition, spotted in the soil layers of a site called Attirampakkam, is eye-popping. At 250,000 years old—and possibly up to 385,000 years old—this tool transition occurred far earlier than it did at other sites in India.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/...ology-science/

[troutman]

Like The White City found by LiDAR in Honduras:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ciudad_Blanca

many on the expedition contracted an incurable tropical disease, called mucocutaneous leishmaniasis, in the lost city.[35]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Preston