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Sidney Clay “Sid” Hisel

News Graphic 25 Sep 2023
Sidney Clay “Sid” Hisel. Sidney Clay “Sid” Hisel, 96, of Georgetown, passed away on Sept. 19, 2023. He was born Dec ... Sidney was married to Gladys Barnes Hisel for 74 years. Sidney was a graduate of Athens High school ... Sidney was also president of Webb American Professional Archeology Society at UK. He spent six weeks in Mexico studying the Mayan culture ... .
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‘We’re not a cult!’ A mysterious L.A. society reinvents itself for modern ‘truth seekers’

The Los Angeles Times 11 Sep 2023
There are two parking lots at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Feliz and on a recent Thursday night, both of them were full ... A Heathen’s Curse.' Across the courtyard, an audience of 50 sat rapt in the society’s atmospheric library as six poets read from recent work.
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Skulls Found at Ancient Mayan Site Reveal Gruesome Historical Ritual

Newsweek 25 Aug 2023
The researchers also found evidence of cranial modification in the skulls—a sign of high status in Mayan society ....
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Collapse 2.0

Consortium News 21 Aug 2023
Bear in mind that, for their time and place, the societies Diamond studied supported large, sophisticated populations ... Mayan civilization is believed to have supported a population of more than 10 million people at its peak between 250 and 900 A.D., while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European society around 1000 A.D.
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Is Industrial Society on the Verge of Collapse?

Democratic Underground 20 Aug 2023
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, geographer Jared Diamond focused on past civilizations that confronted severe climate shocks, either adapting and surviving or failing to adapt and disintegrating ... Bear in mind that, for their time and place, the societies Diamond studied supported large, sophisticated populations.
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Michael Klare: Collapse 2.0

Scheerpost 18 Aug 2023
Bear in mind that, for their time and place, the societies Diamond studied supported large, sophisticated populations ... Mayan civilization is believed to have supported a population of more than 10 million people at its peak between 250 and 900 A.D., while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European society around 1000 A.D.
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Never-before-seen ancient city discovered using laser beam

Metro UK 21 Jun 2023
The site probably declined around 800 to 1000CE judging from materials extracted from buildings, he said, adding this was likely a reflection of ‘ideological and population changes’ that led to the collapse of Maya societies in that region by the 10th century.
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Imagine if humans disappeared tomorrow

GreenBiz 26 May 2023
A few of my favorite examples include anecdotes about Houston, the toxic and unnatural soil signature we’ve left and the downfall of the Mayan people ... The human legacy on the Earth’s soil seems like a good segue from the petrochemical industry to the story of the Mayan civilization ... The collapse of the Mayan civilization.
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Archaeologists discover a lost world of 417 ancient Mayans cities buried in remote jungle, connected ...

Business Insider 21 May 2023
Archaeologists have found ancient Mayans built 417 cities interconnected by 110 miles of "superhighways." Historians to rethink what they know of ancient Mayan civilization ... to the pre-classic epoch of the Mayans, which had previously been considered a nomadic, hunter-gather society.
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Secrets of El Castillo: A Mayan Pyramid's Hidden Treasures (Video)

Ancient Origins 10 May 2023
The discovery not only adds to our understanding of the Mayans' elaborate beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife, but also hints at the possible political and social structure of the Mayan society ... El Castillo Mayan pyramid.
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Mortal Football: Archaeologists Unearth Mayan Stone Scoreboard for Deadly Pelota Game

Sputnik 16 Apr 2023
The Maya played "pelota" - a football-like game - for fun, allegedly, as a way to resolve social conflicts. The game was quite dangerous and the winners were sometimes sacrificed to gods, but this was the best alternative to full-scale conflict that Mayan society could offer ....
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1,000-year-old Mayan 'scoreboard' for ancient soccer-like game discovered in Mexico

Business Insider 15 Apr 2023
A worker shows a circular-shaped Mayan scoreboard used for a ball game found at Chichen Itza's archaeological site during a news conference, in Merida, Mexico April 11, 2023 ... One is wearing a feather headdress, and the other - presumed to be his opponent - is adorned with a "snake turban," reserved for high-ranking individuals in Mayan society.
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Archaeologists discover Mayan scoreboard in Mexico's Yucatan

Hindustan Times 13 Apr 2023
Archaeologists have discovered a stone showing Mayan hieroglyphs ... It displays Mayan hieroglyphic writing surrounding two players standing next to a ball, according to Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) ... He said that the finding could provide new information on pre-Columbian Mayan society.
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Ancient Mayan stone scoreboard is discovered after 1,000 YEARS: Archaeologists find a disk depicting a ...

The Daily Mail 13 Apr 2023
Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered a 1,000-year-old stone scoreboard, used by the ancient Mayans ... The carved, circular stone was found in the Mayan Chichén Itzá archaeological site in the Yucatan peninsula by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
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New exhibit in LA highlights Maya civilization’s legacy, both past and present

LA Daily News 07 Apr 2023
The Exhibition,” which opened earlier this week and will run through January, highlights the rise and fall of the Maya civilization of Mexico and Central America, giving guests the opportunity to explore its scientific innovations, take a close look at original artifacts and learn about the lingering impact of that society today.
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