![]() ![]() Then he decided to add a twenty-third constellation to his map. Gadoury started to map out the constellations and noticed that they corresponded with 117 known Mayan cities. ![]() They would use astrological signs to determine farming cycles, so it stands to reason that the signs could influence where Mayans would want to live. He had solid grounds for his theory: Mayans placed a heavy emphasis on astrology, the idea that the stars directly effect life on Earth. AFP PHOTO / Johan ORDONEZ JOHAN ORDONEZ/Getty Images Show More Show Less The communities of Carmelita and Uaxactun, old producers of chewing gum, got the concession of thousands of hectares of the Mayan Biosphere where they will be able to produce in a responsible and continuous way wood and ornamental plants. The Uaxactun archeological site, Uaxactun municipality, Peten department, some 570 km north of Guatemala City, on the border with Mexico and Belize, on November 28, 2014. AFP PHOTO / Johan ORDONEZ JOHAN ORDONEZ/Getty Images Show More Show Less 29 of114 TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY HENRY MORALES The Temple of the Masks in the Uaxactun archeological site, Uaxactun municipality, Peten department, some 570 km north of Guatemala City, on the border with Mexico and Belize, on November 28, 2014. The researchers also found that the people of the civilization had built canals for moving water and reservoirs for holding it to allow for use during dry periods.27 of114 28 of114 TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY HENRY MORALES They note also that some of the settlements had ball courts that prior research has shown were used for playing a variety of sports native to the region. The researchers also found evidence of large platforms and pyramids in some settlements, which, they note, suggests some of them served as centralized hubs for work, recreation and politics. The researchers note that the road network would have allowed for collective labor efforts. The causeways (cleared, raised beds used as roads) added up to 110 miles of traversable pathways, making it relatively easy for the people in the civilization to visit other settlements. The researchers were also able to see that the people who once lived in the settlements had been densely packed-a finding that goes against theories suggesting early Mesoamerican settlements tended to be sparsely populated. In studying their maps, they were able to see that the ancient civilization was made up of more than 1,000 settlements covering approximately 650 square miles, most of which were linked by multiple causeways. In this new effort, the researchers flew over parts of Guatemala as part of a mapping effort, when they came across what they describe as a vast ancient Maya civilization. Lasers used in such systems are able to penetrate vegetative canopies over rain forests, revealing what is on the ground beneath them. In recent years, it has been used to scan parts of dense tropical rain forests for signs of ancient civilizations. ![]() LiDAR is a detection system similar to radar but is based on laser light rather than radio waves. ![]()
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