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Group: alt.religion.scientology · Group Profile
Author: IntergalacticExpandingPandaIntergalacticExpandingPanda Date: Jun 12, 2008 00:40
On Jun 11, 6:45 pm, BarbaraSchwarz2...@ excite.com wrote:
>> The Mayan are the exception to this. They had NO beasts of
>> burden. There were a few tribes that could pound copper, silver, and
>> gold, but they were not bronze age by any standard. The Mayans had
>> advanced mathematics, base 20 system of math but lived in areas
>> without surface water, only a few swamps and... what's the term...
>> saboche?
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> So, how did they get their water?
Ah the term I was looking for was cenotes.
I've only visited the Yucatan, nothing further south, and it was a
limited visit at that.
But in the Yucatan, there are not really any major rivers. Rivers are
few and far between as are lakes. The major sources of water are
underground. They collect in sinkholes underground caverns called
cenotes. Ground water seeps in through limestone.
There are some other Mayan ruins where in addition to cenotes they
carved rain reservoirs into the ground. Aqueducts were not uncommon
to collect rain water. But if you had a dry year, or many dry years,
it was possible to burn through this supply and run out of water. Not
sure if this was the reason the downfall of their culture before the
Spanish, but I'm sure it was a factor.
In the Yucatan today, they depend mostly on bottled water... the tap
water is from underground sources and it's not very good.
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