Cognito Wrote:
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> Jammer Wrote:
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> > I would like to see some evidence of the
> Native
> > Americans experiencing diseases brought to
> the
> > Maya by the Vikings included bubonic
> plague,
> > chicken pox, pneumonic plague, cholera,
> > diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet
> fever,
> > smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and/or
> whooping
> > cough.
> >
> > Not wide spread perhaps, but evidence in
> local
> > populations...
> >
> Hi Jammer,
>
> What you would like to see is a tall order unless
> you're looking for one or two disease traces since
> most travellers would die on a lengthy voyage
> before successfully transmitting a serious
> communicable disease (i.e. the "clean room"
> effect).
>
> With regard to Vikings, smallpox did not reach
> Iceland until 1241AD via Denmark, ostensibly
> introduced there via the Mongol invasion of
> Europe. The plague arrived in Iceland rather late,
> in 1404AD (although the pneumonic version
> decimated Norway's population by up to 85% in
> 1349-50).
>
> While at Chichen Itza I visited the ballcourt and
> in the temple on the end of the court there are
> many carved panels of Mayan figures, except one. I
> snapped a photo of a bearded man:
> The temple was built about 1000AD and the carving
> appears to be the profile of a man with European
> feautures. Possibly Norse or some other ethnicity,
> certainly not Mayan. He must have been one helluva
> ball player!

Would a person who had not played the game have the ability to perform at the 'professional' level

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I would say that the 'beard' is part of the regalia - but that is speculation