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Scientists Discover These Ancient Cities Have a Secret Link to the Cosmos

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A new discovery pushes the timeline of the 260-day Mesoamerican calendar back by several centuries. The Mesoamerican calendar is unlike anything else in the world, and the discovery sheds light into the mysterious lives of these ancient peoples. During this time, the Gulf Coast of Mexico was occupied by a mix of hunter-gatherers and increasingly sedentary cultures that began to build impressive buildings and settlements. Accurate timekeeping played a major ceremonial role in festivals and rituals, but it may have also emerged as a practical way to manage agricultural activities that were necessary to feed these growing communities. 

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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