{"id":108552,"date":"2020-06-11T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/archaeologist-discover-the-largest-mayan-structureever"},"modified":"2020-06-11T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T01:02:29","slug":"archaeologist-discover-the-largest-mayan-structureever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/archaeologist-discover-the-largest-mayan-structureever","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologist Discover the Largest Mayan Structure\u2026Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/archaeologist-discover-the-largest-mayan-structureever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The largest Mayan structure to date has been discovered at a new site in Tabasco, Mexico. In a new paper in <em>Nature<\/em>, the researchers describe how they used <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/lidar.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/facts\/lidar.html\">lidar<\/a> surveys, excavations, and radiocarbon dating of charcoal samples to find and age the site which has been named Aguada F\u00e9nix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo our knowledge, this is the oldest monumental construction ever found in the Maya area and the largest in the entire pre-Hispanic history of the region,\u201d the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>This 3,000-year-old discovery\u2014and additional previous findings\u2014challenge the notion that Mayan civilization began gradually with small villages and eventually evolving into larger sites and ceremonial complexes. For example, a formal ceremonial complex and plateau dating back to 950 B.C. was previously discovered in Ceibal, Guatemala, that \u201csuggests that substantial ceremonial centers developed in the Maya lowlands earlier than was previously thought.\u201d The Ceibal structure was believed to display the oldest Mayan architecture before Aguada F\u00e9nix was found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest Mayan structure to date has been discovered at a new site in Tabasco, Mexico. In a new paper in Nature, the researchers describe how they used lidar surveys, excavations, and radiocarbon dating of charcoal samples to find and age the site which has been named Aguada F\u00e9nix. \u201cTo our knowledge, this is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}