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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
The Maya in the Year 500
When the current order was set, it was in the year 3114 or whatever. So that 3114 BC date is kind of the base date or the zero date for the short version of the long count calendar. It's almost like an odometer of a car. You know, if you have five numbers in front of you, all of them set at zero. That's 3114 BC August the 13th of 3114 BC.
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