Word: mayan
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...life, Lieskovsky tries actively to avoid being grouped or classified. She describes the Mayan social order, where people have certain roles. There are specific people, she explains, who are interstitial and who can negotiate between different identities and groups. “It’s a role that’s overlooked in our society,” she says. Though she says she has been “somewhat unsuccessful” at attaining that kind of status, Lieskovsky’s closest friends disagree. “I can’t think of anything that make...
...seem to be born with an instinct that the end is out there somewhere. We have a cultural impulse to imagine it--and keep it at bay. Just as all cultures have their creation stories, so too they have their visions of the end, from the Bible to the Mayan millennial stories. Usually the fables dwell in the back of the mind, or not at all, since we go about our lives conditioned to think that however bad things get, it's not you know what. But there are times in human history when instinct, faith, myth and current events...
...team of Harvard-led archeologists in Guatemala have discovered a section of what they say appears to be the oldest intact example of Mayan wall murals...
...archeological team, headed by Peabody Museum Researcher William Saturno, discovered the mural in the ruins of a previously unknown Mayan ceremonial site at San Bartolo in northeastern Guatemala last summer. The find was first announced to the public last Wednesday...
There is only one other known piece of Maya wall painting, and its quality is vastly inferior to the new piece, Stuart said. By comparing the two artifacts, archeologists have concluded that the new mural predates all other existing Mayan art by at least 500 years...