A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at Ucanal
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Re: A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at Ucanal
#2Looking at the map, I vaguely recall it is about the same location where the meteor struck that caused extinction of dinosaurs.
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#3on page 4, that drawing is not a likeness of the stone carving on the right.
Re: A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at Ucanal
#4Looking at the map, I vaguely recall it is about the same location where the meteor struck that caused extinction of dinosaurs.
Significantly north and a bit west of there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater
Re: A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at Ucanal
#5on page 4, that drawing is not a likeness of the stone carving on the right.
That's because it's an illustration of a different altar, #12. The picture is of Altar #13. Both depict the same ruler, which is why they're in the same figure.
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#6The end result seems to have been the intentional desecration of the corpses of a previous ruling dynasty in a massive, public bonfire, and the (probably intentional) use of the undifferentiated remains — jewellery, precious beads and more — as construction material.
Re: A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at Ucanal
#7With the other terminal classic period fires maybe we can suggest that there was a change in political power across the Maya world and part of that was burning the old dynasties literally and figuratively as described here.
Re: A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at Ucanal
#8Fire burning, as opposed to other kinds of burning?
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#9Fire burning, as opposed to other kinds of burning?
counterpoint: boiling
edit: also radiation, wind, ...