Dr. Marc Zender and Dr. Marcello Canuto are researchers at Tulane University's Middle American Research Institute who specialize in the history of the Mayan peoples. We talk about the similarities between the bronze-age collapse and the emptying-out of the Mayan homelands, discovery of more than 1,000 settlements long-hidden beneath the teeming canopy around Guatemala’s El Mirador, the difficult work of accurately reconstructing ancient history, and the sticky appeal of ancient aliens narratives.
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00:00 Go!
00:05:44 The Procession of Kings
00:09:45 Changing Paradigms of the Maya
00:16:10 A Constant Cultural Heart
00:33:14 The End of Culture
00:39:58 Propagation of a People
00:55:32 Cultural Areas & Conquest
01:05:05 Missing Stories
01:15:58 Oral Traditions and Song
01:32:03 The Cycle of Civilizations
01:44:17 Sacrifice
02:09:14 Graham Hancock
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