UCSB Archaeologist Disputes Common Belief About Collapse of Maya Civilization

University of California, Santa Barbara ^ | December 9, 2009 | Journal of Ethnobiology UCSB, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

[allmost]

A ‘memorable moment’. It’s good for you though...

[ApplegateRanch]

Anything you survive makes you tougher...but still, there are some things I would rather forego or even forget.

[allmost]

I keep taking it. I spend most of the aftermath giving.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

All of those things come long after you have wheeled carts pulled by draft animals. At least a couple of millenniums later.

No, the only thing that would have given the Native American population a fighting change would have been if they had domecicatable animals. With the lack of them on the American continents the population did not develop the same type of immunities to animal communicated diseases that were common in Europe, Asia and Africa.

It is almost impossible to resist an invader with 90% of your people dead.

[allmost]

the wheel. I stand by that.

[allmost]

You have a viewpoint... I do not agree with.

[Old Student]

“And made it with water, not milk. Nastier yet. ;-’)”

Don’t forget that they added chili peppers to it, as well. That would make it all right, according to some folks I once knew. ;)

[SunkenCiv]

Cocoa, Caffeinated ‘Black Drink’ Were Widespread in Pre-Contact Southwest, Study Finds
http://westerndigs.org/use-of-cocoa-black-drink-widespread-in-pre-contact-southwest-study-finds/