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The Mayan Calendar Has Been Solved! - Ep 289
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We’ve got a partial theme today but we start with 9000 year old bread making in the near east! We then go to Maya country for a double header. We start with 4000 year old fishing canals build buy the predecessors to the Maya and then talk about a possible solution to the Maya long count calendar.
Links
- Focaccia: A Neolithic culinary tradition dating back 9,000 years ago (Apple)
- Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old fishing canals used by predecessors of Mayans in breakthrough find (Apple)
- Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan Calendar Works (Apple)
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Introduction to The Archaeology Show
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You're listening to the Archaeology Podcast Network. You're listening to The Archaeology Show. TAS goes behind the headlines to bring you the real stories about archaeology and the history around us. Welcome to the podcast.
Exploring Ancient Topics: Bread and Mayan Mysteries
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Hello and welcome to The Archaeology Show, Episode 289. On today's show, we talk about ancient focaccia, Mayan fishing canals, and solving one of the Mayan calendars. Let's dig a little deeper and find some focaccia.
The Hosts' Bread-making Adventures
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Welcome to the show, everyone. Hello. All right. We have two thirds of a theme because two of them are Maya and the other one is not. But you know, if they don't have to be done, everything needs to be themed. This first article, Rachel, I'm sure was triggered because she probably wasn't she probably wasn't even looking for archaeology stuff. She was probably literally googling focaccia. I probably was. I've been on this bread making thing lately, specifically sourdough. For most people, that was COVID. For you, that was four years later. I don't know why I missed a boat during COVID. Maybe it's because we were moving into an RV and like learning to live in an RV was enough of a challenge at that moment. And I just like couldn't take on like learning how to bake sourdough bread when the rest of the world was doing it.
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I know some people during COVID just like sat around in their house and watched TV and baked bread and yeah and learned crafts. And we did that for about three or four months, got bored, bought an RV and sold our house. Yeah. And like figured out how to live on the road. So that there was a lot of time just dealing with that. But, but I am on the sourdough train now, i'm mostly due to my wonderful friend, Heather Boyd, who, if any of you guys have listened to the historical yarns podcast, you would have, you recognize that name cause she was my co-host on that show. and just one of my best friends in the whole world but we visited her when we were in Vermont and she has a lovely thriving sourdough starter and she gave me some of it and now I am off and running and I can't resist anything about bread when I see it even if it's not sourdough I'm like reading about it and this story is about focaccia and I've been making sourdough focaccia so there we go there's the connection that is why we are doing this article right now
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I don't think I realized until just now, reading this article, that focaccia is not always sourdough. Focaccia is just a style of bread. No, I've been making it with sourdough. You've been making sourdough focaccia, but I imagine a lot of times when you have focaccia, it's not sourdough. No, I think most of the time it's not. When you buy it at the store, because that tangy, slightly sour flavor that are in the ones that I make, it's because of the sourdough starter. But it's not always like that. Well, what's also not sourdough is the focaccia in this story. Well, maybe not. Well, they mentioned cereals and grains. They did. But that has sourdough in it. But they also don't have yeast. Yeah, like, side note, I don't really know a lot about ancient bread baking, right? But they didn't have little packets of yeast that they could just go buy at the store. This probably was a sourdough-ish type of thing. It was probably some, yeah. Well, the same technique, though. They would have to culture their yeast in some way. Or grow the yeast. Yeah. Yeah.
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But they were they were growing it. They didn't know they were doing it, basically. Oh, maybe. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. Anyway. Honestly, we would have to do a whole lot more research into this. And maybe that's a little theme podcast we'll do down the road at some point to figure out. Oh, we could.
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the good Oh, I'm sorry. Did you not like all the bread I've been baking lately and how into it I'm getting? um No, the scale does not like all the bread you're baking. My mouth does. No, this is healthy because I make it at home. Oh, yeah my God. That is a whole other conversation we could have. It's like saying the it's like saying the paleo diet was healthy because you know they lived to 30.
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anyway but Okay, moving on. yeah right so Okay, let's talk about this old-school focaccia.
Ancient Bread and Communal Eating in the Fertile Crescent
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Right, so archaeologists from Rome and a partner called UAB and a few other universities we'll mention in a minute here found evidence of baking of large loaves of bread and focaccias in the Fertile Crescent area of the Near East. If you're going to bake anywhere, it better be in the Fertile Crescent. Well, yeah, I mean, that's where like so much of this started, right? So it just makes sense that we would have this early evidence evidence there.
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Yeah, the cool thing is they even had different flavors and cooked them on special trays called husking trays. I know. I'm like, where do I get a husking tray? Clearly, I need one of these. I mean, if you want a gritty bread, I'm sure. Every time I think of people cooking in ceramic stuff, back in the day, we see these pots. No, no, no, no, no, no. Sure, when you fire it smooth, it's going to be real nice. But come on, there had to be some grittiness and just like everyday food.
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I don't think so. I think they got they that process that they used to really smooth out the inside of a ceramic pot before they fire it made it really smooth. Yeah. Anyway. Well, the study also included researchers from the Millet E. Fontanal's institution and the University of Lyon in France.
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Husking trays were containers with a large oval base and low walls made of coarse clay. Yeah. And these were different than common trays internally. They were marked with rough impressions or incisions arranged repetitively and regularly. Yeah. I would imagine that was maybe for and so the bread didn't stick maybe. Airflow or something. Airflow, airflow. Yeah. They're nonstick ah ceramic baking dishes.
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I don't know. Wow. Why not? No, I'm serious. Like, if you have the striations underneath there, that would. But would the bread really stick anyway to ceramic? No, it wouldn't. Yeah, it would just pop right out. If you put enough oil and stuff in it, and it sounds like they had a pretty solid process for making this bread. Well, we'll talk about that. Yeah. Previous experiments proved they were or could be used for baking. And they suggested that the large loaves were made with flour and water, and they were placed on these trays for baking. Yeah, flour and water, that's basically sourdough right there.
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yeah flo Yeah, flour, water, sourdough, sourdough, salt. Yeah. yeah yep They were placed in a domed oven and baked at 420 degrees Celsius for a couple hours. At least it started they said it started at 420 C when they like had it up hot. But when you put something in it, it'll cool down and then that will change around.
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And for the Americans among us, 420 degrees Celsius is seven approximately 788 degrees of Fahrenheit. Yeah, but over like a couple hundred, you're just going to be burned to a crisp. So don't worry about it. Yeah, like super high. i just had't I just had to know, like what does that mean? Because yeah like I'm just thinking about my own sourdough bread baking journey. And you actually don't. You could get it at a pretty high temperature, but definitely not that high. so Well, like they said, it would they would get it up to that height in this ah you know something around there, at least in experimental trials. That's what the heat would get up to. get to you know People don't want to burn shit, though. like I'm willing to bet that the ancient people probably had some other techniques for you know reducing the heat, cooling it down, maybe not letting it get that hot to begin with, something like that. that Maybe that just doesn't hold in the archaeological record. Right. Well, one other thing they found is that the size of the loaves suggest a communal consumption. So if they're baking these large, large loaves, they might need it to be a higher temperature in order to get it just cooked all the way through them.
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Yeah, they had ceramic fragments of these husking trays and analyzed them. The ones they analyzed were from between 6400 and 5900 BCE to see if they could have been seasoned with things like animal fat or vegetable oil. yeah And the fragments of the ones they found were specifically from sites in an area between Syria and Turkey. Yeah. They analyzed phytoliths, which are silica residues from plants and found that cereals such as wheats or barley were reduced to flour and then processed in the husking trays. And some of those trays were used to cook foods containing animal-derived ingredients such as fat and in at least one case plant-based seasonings. Season for gushing. So we definitely have all the ingredients for bread here. We've got we've got cereals like wheat and barley, which you could use to make bread. And then we've got the fat component. And you really do have to have that to keep it from you sticking to the trays. Just like you said, you've got to have something to you know create a nice like liquidy, oily layer. yeah And they've got it. And one of the reasons they know that the cooking temperature was pretty high on these things so was they can actually tell from the degradation of the residues, those those oil and fat residues,
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They can tell by how much they're degraded, like what temperature they were actually cooked to, to get to that level of degradation through experimentation. And that temperature is consistent with experimental evidence. right yeah So that high temperature we coated was not just the experimenters not knowing how to control their oven. right it was you know They know it was that high, at least at some point in the cooking process. yeah totally But obviously you'd burn your bread if it stayed that high. yeah Yeah, it is interesting, but it could be that they just get it up to that temperature and then let it slowly cool and the bread is cooking as that oven is slowly cooling down too. you know yeah
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They also mentioned, and I don't know if this was a misinterpretation of the article or what, but they talked about use-wear and use alterations analysis of the ceramic surface indicating the use-wear associated with bread residues and others linked to seasoned focaccia residues. And I'm thinking, did the did the residues or something cause like some sort of degradation of the ceramics? like like Something like that, and they could see that. I really didn't understand what they were talking about there. What do they mean by use wear? Exactly. yeah What do they mean? Yeah, that is an interesting word, because usually you're looking at some kind of pattern. yeah Physical Yeah, something physical. on And this is on the ceramics, so are they seeing like evidence of like cutting of seasonings or something like that? So all this proves that communities use s cereals they cultivated to prepare bread and focaccia seasoned and enriched with various ingredients and consumed in groups. Much like we do 9,000 years later. Like, not a lot different. 9,000 years, that seems a little bit... Well, it said 9,000 years ago. Yeah, it was just 5,900 BC. 6,300 BC. Yeah, I guess so. 9,000 years have been making focaccia. And then it took 6,000 years for the people in Pompeii to make pizza out of it. Well, I don't think it was... Okay, we've talked about this. It wasn't actually pizza. It was just like a flatbread with stuff on it. Called pizza. basically what pizza is.
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They just like over-seasoned it. We literally took the focaccia's I've been making and turned them into pizza, because it's just like you just put stuff on it and then all of a sudden it's pizza. We made Pompeii pizza. We made Pompeii pizza, sure. The use of the husking trade shows the development of a culinary tradition that developed over about six centuries, according to archaeological evidence.
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Yeah, and I think the one thing that I took away from this, I think it was in the very, very end of the article, is that regardless of how they did it or why they did it, they were baking huge, large batches of bread, right? And they were using this to feed tons of people, which just proves a growing community that was just getting bigger and bigger. And when you have more people, you're getting more advanced. It's just just the whole advancement of the society was happening. So, yeah. There you go. Yep. All right. Well, you know it goes well with focaccia. Baked fish.
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It kind of does, actually. well they were Sardines and stuff. you know They were catching plenty of it in Belize, the predecessors of the Maya 4,000 years ago. We'll talk about that in a minute. Welcome back to The Archaeology Show, episode 289. And now we're going to talk about the Maya, of course. Because the Maya are awesome, right? like Why wouldn't we talk about them all the time? It's not actually the Maya that we're talking about. It's the predecessors of the Maya, which is super cool, because you know they didn't just become the Maya and start building pyramids. right and So there was ah there was a history
Unveiling Mayan Fishing Canals with Technology
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there. But to get there, using drones and Google Earth, archaeologists discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in Belize. Yeah.
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yeah And ah like you said, this is long before the Maya and before the people became the Maya, so. Yeah. Now I'm not sure if those people actually did become the Maya. I actually wrote that in the notes, but I was just assuming that maybe some were left there, but then there was talking about the Maya actually moving into that area. Oh, okay. So they might have moved in. Yeah. Yeah. so Well, there's a lot of but like population migration throughout central America, obviously. So, but, but they're in the, in the area that the Maya eventually did occupy. So.
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and We're going to talk about some stuff here, but there's actually a lot of really good pictures in this article. The New York Post, to their credit, and who did this article pulled in some actual images from the journal. They did. I loved that. You don't usually see people doing that because, honestly, like journal images and figures can be kind of hard to interpret. yeah and These are not the easiest to interpret I've ever seen, honestly. But they do give you a nice idea of what they're talking about here.
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Yeah. And you can see in some of these images, the zigzag pattern of canals that they were talking about, and you could, you literally can't see these just sitting on the ground. No, there's no way. You need aerial imagery to be able to assess this stuff out. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. And of course they did do some ground truth with digs in these specific areas that they identified from the aerial images. Yeah. And ground truth thing for those of you that don't really know what we're talking about here, that really just means they took some hotspots or some areas that, you know, maybe in the canals or something like that, that they could actually just dig some holes, right? Cause anytime you find something through aerial imagery,
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or through some other non-excavation sort of way, yeah even if it's ground penetrating radar or something, you have to ground truth it, which just means dig. Yeah, because what you can see on the surface doesn't necessarily mean there's anything below it, and it doesn't necessarily mean it's cultural, too. There's a lot of things that are natural that happen naturally that that people didn't do at all, and you just have to verify.
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but they did find stuff. yeah So the ancient canals withholding ponds that they identified in these digs were used to channel and catch freshwater species such as catfish. Yep. They were likely built by semi nomadic people in the Yucatan coastal plain as early as 4,000 years ago, which is so long ago. Yeah. That's awesome. And then the canals were probably used just from what we're seeing here for about a thousand years or longer. Yeah. I mean, if there's a good thing in place and it still works, why wouldn't they just keep using it? Right. um Totally. And now this includes the formative period when the Maya began to settle in permanent farming villages and their distinctive culture started to emerge basically. So even if the people who build these canals weren't the actual precursors to the Maya, it sounds like the Maya would have moved into the area. And if those other people had gone, they would have just used these canals if they were there. Right. The Maya thought it was aliens.
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I thought it was the Romans, probably. i mean ben then And then the Maya were like, apart from these canals, the water system and the fish, what else have the Romans given the Maya? I even set you up for that one. I don't know why I'm supporting you putting this quote into every single podcast forever going forward. i'm I'm just going to record that and just drop it in. I really need to watch that movie. It's been so long since I've seen it.
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Anyway, anyway like large-scale landscape modification like this, and this early, is in this area is very interesting and very rare. yeah They just don't see this kind of thing. and it might be I'm wondering, is it because they haven't looked right like well right? Who just did some aerial imagery stuff? in some just jungle a lot of it. So it just to get so overgrown and also there's a lot of agriculture too that would have just yeah wiped out things, you know, before researchers had a chance to look at it. I mean, can you even make that statement? Cause I pulled that directly from the article. Can you even make that statement? If you've got a series of canals pre-Maya that were used for a thousand years, you tell me they didn't make anything else. They're like, Oh, we're good with canals. We're going to stop with this large, large scale landscape modification tech.
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The Maya at the height of their civilization built roads, pyramids, and other monuments, obviously. They had complex systems of writing, mathematics, and astronomy. They had so much going on. So there's nothing to say that these earlier peoples didn't have the beginnings of some of those those things that were going to eventually you know develop. But yeah I guess we still need to find the evidence, right? so Yeah, they're showing at the very least, this shows a continuity with the past and the the predecessors of the Maya, at least the people that used to live there, whether they became Maya or not. And the fish trapping in this area help people in the region diversify their diets as well and feed a growing population because there was just more and more of them. so Yeah. It's just like in the last article, like the more resources you have, the more a population can grow, right? So being able to trap fish like this, if only they had had focaccia, like they really would have been like what on a roll. Yeah. Yeah. But I guess, how did they know like when the fish were coming around? Well, they would need some kind of calendar, wouldn't they? This is actually super
Decoding the Mayan 819-Day Calendar
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cool. On the other side of the break, we're going to talk about how some scientists actually finally saw the mystery or at least they think they have of how the Mayan calendar works back in a minute.
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Welcome back to The Archaeology Show, episode 289. And now we're going to talk about the but one of the Mayan calendars. And it's the one of the long count. I think it is the long calendar, calendar like the the big one. Yeah. Because they have a number of calendars. Well, this calendar is 819 days, or 819 day cycle. So if it's not the long count, then I don't know how long the long count is. I thought they had one that went like 26,000 years, but I could be wrong.
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Anyway, they didn't really talk about which calendar this was or what it's actually called. That's not really the important bit here, but it is one of the calendars that have been confusing people for a really long time. So it looks like now that this calendar matches up to planetary movements over a 45-year span.
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which is just crazy. It's like such a long span of time. So it's crazy that they built a calendar right around that, but it makes me wonder if calendar is even the right word. We're going to get into like what they're actually tracking here, but like calendar, like are they really tracking timers? It just like, there's some guys that were super interested in the planets and they just like wanted to know like what the movements were. So they just like, like planned it out. some women I'm using guys to mean a group of people. Okay. Anyway,
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Yeah, so prior research tried to show planetary connections, because to be honest, anytime you have a long timeframe on something that you know is a long timeframe, generally you're probably thinking astronomical observations. I mean, that's just how things work that way. yeah But anyway, they tried to show planetary connections to this calendar, but the four-part color directional calendar is too short to fit well with the synodic periods of the visible planets. And that was a word that I'm not sure I had heard too much in the past. neith Yeah, I'm sure I had with all the astronomy stuff I kind of pay attention to, but anyway, synodic period of a planet is the one thing they would have been able to do without telescopes, because what that actually means is, if you've got some kind of a reference point, when you see that planet, you know, with the tip of a certain tree or at the tip of your pyramid or something like that,
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When that planet, the Earth rotates around the sun, and the other planets are rotating around the sun. right So because of that, the planets have this this journey across the sky through time. right And the amount of time it takes that planet to go all the way around its cycle and come back to the same point, and it may even just revolve up in the sky, depending on which planet it is. right It might not actually disappear during certain seasons. but Like it might just make a big loop in the sky, but as long as you have a reference point for when it starts or for you for just for you for when it starts, you can get the length of time it takes yeah for it to make that revolution, whatever it is. But they would have known just like some of the other stars in the sky, but the stars all move. The planets would have been different. yeah And this is why people were confused by planets in the past. In fact, I think the planet, the word planet has a Greek root of like wanderer or something like that. I can't remember what that was, but anyway,
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They talk about how the planets are just different from the stars. When you look at the stars on a fixed background, the planets move differently. and But when it comes back to that point, that's the synodic period. Yeah. so It totally makes sense. And then, of course, they wouldn't have been tracking just one planet, right? Yeah. So they would have been potentially looking at all the planets.
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All the visible planets. All the visible planets. Which go out to Jupiter, Saturn. Yeah. And they would have had no trouble distinguishing between those different planets, you think? I mean, I guess not, obviously, if they're tracking them. Well, you've got people that are just watching the sky every single night. There's no lights. Yeah, I guess so. They're slightly different colors or different sizes, and they're able to. Planets look different. When you're really fixated on the sky and you grow up just looking at it,
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you start to realize that certain lights in the sky, regardless of how what you even know those are, they wouldn't even probably have conceived of the fact that they were other bodies, wouldn't they even think they were? They definitely wouldn't have considered them planets, right? They couldn't have distinguished they don't know what that shape.
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Yeah, they just saw a different looking light, basically. Yeah, and it behaved differently. yeah So this was an attempt to map that, because they probably thought by mapping this sort of thing and putting it in this calendar, they were probably getting closer to the gods or something like that. Yeah, it probably did have some kind of, you know, yeah i'm not maybe not quite ritual, because I don't know that they were necessarily doing rituals around it, but it might have had some kind of significance in whatever their spiritual beliefs were.
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Well, the disconnect here was that the 819-day pattern wasn't enough to match all the synodic periods of all the planets, a few of the planets, but not all the planets. But they still couldn't work out the 819 days. They were like, okay, so this doesn't quite match up, which means this is probably not right. But somebody got super smart about this, and when you increase the calendar length to 20 periods of 819 days, then a pattern does emerge with the synodic periods of all the visible planets commensurate with station points in the larger 819-day calendar.
Aligning Mayan Calendars with Planetary Cycles
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Man, they were just so smart, but it makes sense, right? yeah like if they were they They mapped out all of these planets, right? And then they just they needed something smaller, so they condensed it down as much as they could, and that's where they got to this 819 day thing. it It completely makes sense when you start thinking about it.
00:21:32
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Yeah, they had and they had various calendar types, but this one has confused people the most, just because they couldn't figure out what it was what was going on there. yeah So the 20 periods, basically, is about 16,380 days. Well, it is 16,380 days. That's 819 times 20.
00:21:48
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or 45 years, give or take. right yeah and That's 20, as I said, 819 day timelines. so Let's talk about this little yeah the different planets they can see. Mercury's synodic period of 117 days matches nicely into the 819 days. From there, though, you need longer spans. okay Mars may be the reason for the ultimate length of the calendar, okay because it has a 780-day synodic period. So in order to start mapping where it's going to be year after year, you kind of just need a longer calendar yeah you know to to say that. 21 periods of 708, 21 periods, not 20, of 780 days match exactly the 16,380-day length of the calendar, or 20 cycles of 819 days. right
00:22:32
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Yeah, so 21 Mars periods equals 20 819 day calendars. OK. Yeah. Is that crazy? Yeah, it's cool. It's a little bit. And now Venus needs seven periods to match five 819 day counts. So it fits in there. And Saturn has 13 periods that fit within six 819 day counts.
00:22:56
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And finally, Jupiter has 39 periods to hit 19, 819 day counts. So that is kind of confusing, but you're looking at how many times these planets revolve around whatever their fixed point is within the 20 of the 819 day counts. It's kind of confusing when you think about it. How do you know what cycle you're on? It must have been within the calendar somewhere. They must have been tracking each one individually and then they were able to compile them together in a way that is way smarter than anything I could ever do in my life. Yeah, it's crazy. I'm guessing when they saw Mars for the 21st time, they start the calendar over again.
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because that yeah i guess you know that is the end of 45 years. That's the end of 20 cycles of the 819 day count. The Maya astronomers who created the 819 day count envisioned it as a larger calendar system that could be used for predictions of all the visible planets' cyanide periods, which is, again, super crazy. I know, it's just so like forward thinking. i I love that because I know a lot of different cultures around the world used the stars and the sun and the moon to track things and and make a calendar of sorts, but this just seems so smart, doesn't it? and yeah it's like It's just like a ah level up. I love it, it's so cool.
00:24:14
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This gives me another thought too because you and I are kind of struggling to talk about this a little bit because it is like really confusing, right? Which makes me think that this knowledge would have been something that not every single like every day my in-person would have had access to. would have been specialized Yeah. It definitely would have been specialized, which tells you that you've got a culture that is definitely like split between but higher and lower people who have this greater knowledge and those that don't, it would have contributed to like a class distinction and stuff
Mayan Astronomers' Expertise and Impact
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like that. So you're talking about a really advanced society, obviously who's coming up with stuff like this, because it's just not something that everybody can wrap their daily brains around. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty crazy. Yeah. I'm definitely specialized information that you can only do if you've got a larger, a larger state level society. there's There's somebody supporting the people who are putting so much time and effort into creating something like this. These guys aren't farming. No, no, they're spending all their time just understanding this and it's important enough to this people to these people as a whole that whoever is in charge of this does this work. It's just so advanced and I i love it. They call them Maya astronomers too, which sure, if you study the sky, but I'm willing to bet they were probably part of the religious orders as well, because anytime you compare yeah astronomy or astronomical observations, it's wizardry. Yeah, it completely is. so But gosh, just so advanced these people, I love it. Yeah, and this calendar also matched up with the commensurate points in the cycles with the Salken, I can't remember, I'm probably pronouncing that wrong, just read the article, calendar and the calendar round, which were two other, the two other big ones they
Sneak Peek: Polynesian History and Moana
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used. counters yeah so so So they matched up together, they they all worked together basically, or they could work together if you had the right knowledge to to read them, you know, yeah.
00:26:03
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okay Well, that's it for that. Our next episode is going to be not a movie review, but we're going to we actually saw with our little nieces and nephew yeah yesterday, Moana too. Yeah, we did. Which I got to say, you know that was probably one of the most well done culturally authentic movies. And I did a little research and found out why there's Disney actually did some stuff to make that happen yeah to their credit. And I figured it was a good excuse to study some Polynesian history. Yeah. So we're kind of having a deep dive episode into these peoples, which we haven't done a deep dive episode like this in a while, but it's just, it was tipped off by watching this movie and trying to yeah figure out what they did right and what they did wrong. So go see the movie if you want to or have access to it before next week, and then we're going to talk about it. Even if you don't have a chance to see the movie, it doesn't matter. It's a kid's movie. We won't really spoil anything. And you'll enjoy hearing a review of it, I am sure. Indeed. All right. Well, with that, we'll see you next week. Bye.
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Thanks for listening to The Archaeology Show. Feel free to comment in and view the show notes on the website at www.arcpodnet.com. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at arcpodnet. Music for this show is called, I Wish You Would Look, from the band C Hero. Again, thanks for listening and have an awesome day.
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The Archaeology Podcast Network is 10 years old this year. Our executive producer is Ashley Airy, our social media coordinator is Matilda Sebrecht, and our chief editor is Rachel Rodin. The Archaeology Podcast Network was co-founded by Chris Webster and Tristan Boyle in 2014 and is part of CulturoMedia and DigTech LLC. This has been a presentation of the Archaeology Podcast Network. Visit us on the web for show notes and other podcasts at www.archpodnet.com. Contact us at chrisatarchaeologypodcastnetwork.com.