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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Maya Civilization

The Maya civilization is a complex phenomenon in the sense that it was many, many cities that were connected to each other. The thing that I work on in my archeology, my own specialty is the decipherment of hieroglyphs. They had official records that have survived in stone inscriptions. And we can access the Maya unlike any other pre-Columbian civilization because we have their own words going back centuries before Columbus.

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