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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 Origins of the Ancient Calendar
In some sense it is an alphabet, right? But rather than letters as we think of it, they had symbols meaning sounds. So you can just cycle back, as it were, to the astronomy calendar kinds of questions. You know what they mean. And one of the things, I'm biased, but they had a lot of calendars, a lot of dates lying around. And you could figure out what they were talking about. Yes, they did.
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