Rebby Wrote:
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> The whole suggestion seems vanishingly flimsy to
> me. The scenario requires that the preliterate
> Maya ancestors

First, we don't know the Maya/Olmec/Whoever of 2720 BC were pre-literate. Not having stone monuments with writing that date to this time period doesn't prove there was no writing at this time period. Writing existed in the Old World that far back in time. It could have existed in Mesoamerica as well.

>began assiduously counting the
> years in 2720 BC, and kept the count going with
> astonishing accuracy for over a millennium and a
> half, through many generations, disasters,other
> notable events, innovations and culture change;
> made the connection with a similar event in 1142
> BC,and calculated the interval between the two;
> and then sat down some seven centuries later to
> work out the complexities of the Mayan calendar
> based on that interval. Prima facie, that does not
> sound sensible to me.
>

Keeping a count of days for a thousand years doesn't seem so impossible when you think about our modern "count of days" that is 2000 years old and has been maintained through countless disasters including black deaths and world wars and collapse of empires and dark ages and other disasters as well as calendar adjustments (julian to gregorian) yet the count continues.




Gary Daniels
Author, "Mayan Calendar Prophecies: Predictions for 2012-2052"
Creator, LostWorlds.org, TheRealMayanProphecies.com
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