The characters are “very well practiced. This isn’t a stumbling baby step.”
Buried within the Las Pinturas pyramid in San Bartolo, Guatemala, thousands of painted plaster mural fragments offer a window into ancient Maya civilization. Two of those fragments form the earliest known record of a Maya calendar, created between 300 and 200 B.C.from the 260-day sacred calendar common across ancient Mesoamerica and still used today by indigenous communities in Guatemala and southern Mexico, archaeologist David Stuart and colleagues report April 13 in.
In a calendar once common across Mesoamerica, 13 numbers and 20 signs are mixed and matched to represent 260 specific dates such as “7 Deer” . The numbers 13 and 20 are sacred in the region, and the 260 days may reflect the length of human gestation.In a calendar once common across Mesoamerica, 13 numbers and 20 signs are mixed and matched to represent 260 specific dates such as “7 Deer” . The numbers 13 and 20 are sacred in the region, and the 260 days may reflect the length of human gestation.
The 260-day calendar system “survived not only close to 1,800 years in the Maya world before the Spanish showed up, but it persisted even more recently, since conquests . . . in some of the most oppressed areas,” Stuart says. “I find that an incredible thing.”
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