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Scientists finally solved chilling mystery of why the Mayans vanished after thousands of years

Scientists finally solved chilling mystery of why the Mayans vanished after thousands of years Self-made environmental issues took a turn for the worse. Mayans have always been a topic of interest renowned for their hieroglyphic writing, agricultural achievements, as well as their ancient calendar that famously predicted an apocalypse back in 2012. Around A.D. 250, […]

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The Gift of the Maya

The Gift of the Maya “The Maya forest garden holds, in its ramblings and roots, a hidden-in-plain-sight way through our present crises.” It takes a bit of time for the elegance of a food forest to emerge, something on the order of decades. Strolling the garden through the morning mist in a hot Tennessee summer, […]

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Seneca’s pyramids: how fast did the Mayan civilization fall?

Seneca’s pyramids: how fast did the Mayan civilization fall? Monument building cycle of the Mayan civilization. From “Sylvanus G. Morley and George W. Brainerd, The Ancient Maya, Third Edition (Stanford University Press, 1956), page 66.”. Courtesy of Diego Mantilla. Once you give a name to a phenomenon, you can focus your attention on it and […]

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Achieving Sustainable Societies: Lessons from Modelling the Ancient Maya | Solutions

Achieving Sustainable Societies: Lessons from Modelling the Ancient Maya | Solutions. In BriefThe ancient Maya provide an example of a complex social-ecological system which developed impressively before facing catastrophic reorganization. In order for our contemporary globally-connected society to avoid a similar fate, we aim to learn how the ancient Maya system functioned, and whether it […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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