Caste War fortifications at Ichmul
on Nov 5, 2009 in Archaeology Mayanist studies Caste War Cochuah Creole Fortification Fortin Yo'okop Ichmul Mexico Warfare Yo'okop The Cochuah region has not been a peaceful area. At Yo’okop we have evidence of several fortifications that may even date to separate events (such as the Terminal Classic abandonment and the later Postclassic reoccupation and abandonment of the sit...

2012: Thank you Emmerich
on Nov 4, 2009 in Entertainment New age and creationism 2012 2012 movie Golden Raspberry Movies Roland Emmerich I have now read the first review of the 2012 movie and it is being treated as expected: “We haven’t laughed so hard in a long time. The latest global disaster movie from director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow)...

2012: Conspiracy pt 1
on Nov 1, 2009 in New age and creationism 2012 9/11 Conspiracy theory David Wilcock Lloyd Pye Michael Tsarion Pseudoscience One of the recurrent themes in the 2012 circus is conspiracy theory. The most popular conspiracy theory today is the one related to the 9/11 event (and in my post on numerology you can see that number 11 is important for these hoaxers). The 9/11 cons...

Bomb…?
on Oct 29, 2009 in Events Bomb Göteborg tram And now something completely different. You probably won’t believe this but my house and street is currently being blocked off by the police. A man with a possible bomb belt entered tram # 6 in Göteborg. At least six police cars and an ambulan...

2012: How to spot a prophet’s Maya hoax – ethnocentrism and Annunaki
on Oct 28, 2009 in Mayanist studies New age and creationism 2012 Annunaki Apocalypto Chichen Itza CNN Egypt El Mirador Ethnocentrism Homo erectus Maya Mesopotamia New Age Pseudoscience Pyramids Running Wild Tikal Zecharia Sitchin Not long after CNN posted the El Mirador videos on internet the site was caught up in the 2012circus. Just the fact that it appears to have been completely unheard of before this is just revealing how ignorant the 2012ers are. The site has been known...

El Pilar – Nohol Pilar’s ballcourt and E-group
on Oct 27, 2009 in Archaeology Mayanist studies Belize El Pilar Maya Before my fieldwork in the Cochuah region I spent four seasons in the Belize Valley. I first spent one season (1997) at Baking Pot. During a weekend I took a taxi to El Pilar, the largest site in the Upper Belize Valley. I liked the site and I later...

Visitor statistics
on Oct 27, 2009 in Archaeology Mayanist studies Blog Maya Statistics Visitors Since I moved my blog to WordPress seven months ago I have created 180 posts and had over 100,000 hits. I believe it now is the largest “Mayanist blog” in terms of the number of hits. The overall statistics from the start is 503 visitors a day (t...

Same same but different Maya novel
on Oct 26, 2009 in Entertainment Mayanist studies Fiction Heart of Time Maya Novel In two earlier posts I have mentioned my unpublished novel The Heart of Time (which have to be reworked before I ever send it to a publisher). Today I got an email from the author (David L. Smith) of a newly published novel called Jaguar Rising. Her...

Commoditization and singularization
on Oct 20, 2009 in Archaeological theory Mayanist studies Appadurai Belize Cerros Commoditization Commodity Economy El Mirador Guatemala Kopytoff Marx Maya Singularization Trade Back in 1997 I finally finished my overworked BA-thesis in archaeology. It discussed Late Formative trade and its importance in the rise of stratified social formations in the Central Maya Lowlands. I particularly focused on the political relations b...

2012: How to spot a prophet’s Maya hoax: false dilemmas and straw men
on Oct 18, 2009 in Mayanist studies New age and creationism 2012 Aliens Creationism Diffusion False dilemma Logical fallacy Maya New Age Pseudoscience Straw man The easiest way to detect a 2012 prophet’s logical fallacy is to look for false dilemmas and straw men in their arguments. A false dilemma is when one characterizes the opposite position (that would be science or the “orthodox” view as they oft...