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Ancient mesoamerican civilizations do not seem recognizably human
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Date: October 24th, 2017 11:30 PM Author: Ruby kink-friendly church building people who are hurt We don't even know anything about most of them. All we have is some old ruins, no writing. We don't know wtf they called themselves or what they did. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522736) |
Date: October 25th, 2017 12:13 AM Author: puce parlor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522920) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:13 AM Author: Rebellious angry school sweet tailpipe ... there is writing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522924) |
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Date: April 21st, 2018 6:48 PM Author: Ruby kink-friendly church building people who are hurt Not for most of these people there isn't. And we have very little of the writing anyone left behind. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#35890403) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:13 AM Author: Excitant genital piercing shrine We do have writing, and we know that one of the most powerful mesoamerican kings called himself "Jaguar Penis" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522925) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:27 AM Author: Ruby kink-friendly church building people who are hurt For some of them we have writing, but only the more recent ones. We don't know wtf the Olmecs or Toltecs were doing. There are many others that left even less behind than they did. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522994) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:32 AM Author: Excitant genital piercing shrine I suppose it is notable that we're not sure who exactly built Teotihuacan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523025) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:34 AM Author: overrated swashbuckling philosopher-king main people Pretty sure what they were doing was building giant heads, the most prestigious activity of any great ancient civilization. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523036) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:41 AM Author: black supple orchestra pit national security agency How much of the workforce was just slave labor for the king to pursue his public works and monuments to the gods/himself, and how many others occupied themselves as farmers or artisans, selling ponchos, backpacks and chess sets to spendthrift passers-by? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523071) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2020 12:57 AM Author: Ruby kink-friendly church building people who are hurt Is this rach's last known poast? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40470257) |
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Date: April 21st, 2018 6:50 PM Author: Ruby kink-friendly church building people who are hurt The olmecs developed a writing system late in their epoch, but we only have like 2 or 3 examples of it anywhere in the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#35890413) |
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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:51 PM Author: Mauve Hairraiser Organic Girlfriend House tbf, there is probably some Chiapas drug lord calling himself that today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#35890966) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:15 AM Author: rose affirmative action (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522941) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:20 AM Author: black supple orchestra pit national security agency I mean, they didn't even have wheels. What the fuck were they doing? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34522964) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:30 AM Author: Ruby kink-friendly church building people who are hurt They were getting high as fuck and domesticating llamas, corn, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, peppers and tobacco. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523012) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:42 PM Author: sinister brunch giraffe The Incas did llamas and potatoes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954366) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:37 PM Author: Mind-boggling umber feces They went hard down the religion and bronze working parts of the tech tree (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954352) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:40 PM Author: Ruby kink-friendly church building people who are hurt Religion, Astronomy, Mathematics, Masonry, probably in that order. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954359) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:43 PM Author: Mind-boggling umber feces Bronze/iron a prereq for compass and optics which gets you astronomy
Tbf very easy to overlook the wheel if you’ve got pottery already
http://www.civfanatics.net/downloads/civ4/reference/CIV4%20TECHTREE%20FRONT%20ENG%20Lo%20Res.pdf |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:48 PM Author: Ruby kink-friendly church building people who are hurt Looks like you can get to astronomy through paper and theology and some other bullshit that doesn't require metal working.
Oh wait I read that wrong. Looks like those are necessary but not sufficient. |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:32 AM Author: disturbing very tactful theater karate Not too surprising, because Guatemalans are their descendants and they don't look recognizably human either. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523024) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 12:45 AM Author: maize den *rolls skull down pyramid steps * (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#34523096) |
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Date: April 21st, 2018 6:51 PM Author: translucent jap stead Most of the writings were destroyed by enemy tribes or by spanish conquistadors. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#35890420) |
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Date: April 21st, 2018 8:54 PM Author: Emerald indian lodge marketing idea The Spanish did God's work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#35890979) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:08 PM Author: Jet stag film puppy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954503) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:13 PM Author: Alcoholic Bespoke Quadroon Small pox really. The occupants of north america were doomed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954537) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:31 PM Author: Ruby kink-friendly church building people who are hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954322) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:33 PM Author: Balding mother Archaeologists have decided that the most important ritual in their culture was “the ball game” but no one knows wtf it looked like or what any of the rules were. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954328) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:36 PM Author: Ruby kink-friendly church building people who are hurt It looks like it was different everywhere. Court sizes vary widely, as does the size of the hoops. It seems the some courts were used for purely competitive games whereas others were ceremonial and probably choreographed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954348) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:46 PM Author: sinister brunch giraffe Mesoamerican civs were the most brutal in history, and that's with full knowledge that most civilizations were very brutal by 21st c. western standards. No other civilization practiced human sacrifice on such a scale. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954382) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 1:50 PM Author: Pea-brained Soul-stirring Garrison thousands of virgins a day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954400) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:03 PM Author: Alcoholic Bespoke Quadroon There is evidence of mass human sacrifices, to the tune of thousands of people at a time.
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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:05 PM Author: Alcoholic Bespoke Quadroon Think about the cultures in north america ten thousand years ago that witnessed the massive glacier breaking up and catastrophic flooding like we've never imagined. Some dude was around when that shit went down. It would have been followed by insane forest fires that leave a layer of smoke across the globe. Just nuts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954477) |
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Date: September 20th, 2020 2:08 PM Author: Jet stag film puppy Same with sub Saharan africa (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3773935&forum_id=2#40954500) |