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January 11th, 2013 | #61 |
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The link negates any other conceptual use for the wheel out side of harnessing it to a beast of burden, and since they had no such animals, they were just too smart to buy into the wheel concept. These little toys suggest to me that the people who had made them had seen a wheel and were trying to duplicate it. The figure head with large ears is a prevailing theme on those pieces, and seem to represent something different than themselves.
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January 11th, 2013 | #62 |
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Right, civilizations with such advanced cities as Tenoshtitlan, Lima, Machu Picchu etc. with access to wheels would have had at the very least hand carts for transporting goods down city streets. Unless Valdez is implying that these fabled civs that exceeded our own in terms of organization, infrastructure and opulence were completely supplied by 3'9" women with jars on their heads.
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"Evidence of wheeled vehicles appears from the mid-4th millennium BC, near-simultaneously in Mesopotamia, the Northern Caucasus (Maykop culture) and Central Europe, so that the question of which culture originally invented the wheeled vehicle remains unresolved and under debate. The world's oldest wooden wheel, dating from 5,250 ± 100 BP, was discovered by Slovenian archeologists in 2002.[3]" 3: http://www.ukom.gov.si/en/media_rela..._in_slovenia/: Working on a site in the Ljubljana marshes, Slovenian archaeologists last year uncovered a wooden wheel some 20 kilometres southeast of Ljubljana. Austrian experts have established that the wheel is between 5,100 and 5,350 years old, which makes it the oldest wooden wheel in the world ever found. Quote:
The key to understanding the Maya is their astronomy. The basic problem all primitive agricultural societies face is timekeeping. In the case of Britain, this led to the founding of Neolithic sites such as Stonehenge, where the stones were aligned to measure changes in the position of the rising sun and thus the seasons. Such a convenient and easily accessible way of determining the agricultural calendar was not available to the Maya. The point where the sun rose was difficult to determine due to the surrounding jungle, while even if it could be observed—presumably from the top of a pyramid—the seasonal variations in position were much less marked than in the North. It thus became very important early on for the Maya to study the stars and planets to get a grip on time, an option much less open to the Neolithic Brits in their cloud-enshrouded abode. The development of and dependence on an astronomically literate elite also created a tendency towards extreme hierarchy because an ability to read the stars and planets was not knowledge that was easily transferable in a society where the only form of writing was a dense, impenetrable system of hieroglyphics. With such vital but esoteric knowledge in their hands the elite could imperiously lord it over the vast underclass. http://www.alternativeright.com/main...d-without-end/ Furthermore, your implication is that the Mayans knew of Heliocentrism before Galileo, which is, of course, false. The Maya did not even know that the Earth was spherical (which was known by Europeans since Ancient Greek times.) Quote:
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My review of Orange Wildflower.
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Why not? Did the hyper-advanced mesoamerican cultures not interact with each other on a diplomatic level?
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Unless toys are some kind of indicator of civility. |
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In fact, the Greek philosopher Eratosthenes (who lived in the third century BC) accurately estimated the Earth's circumference with 95-98% accuracy.
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This needs to get back to the honey. Anyone else tried it yet?
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