Over on my blog "Waking Up On Turtle Island," I am slowly writing up my experiences at a Maya site I visited in Belize - not on the mainland but on Ambergris Caye (Key) - not the devolped type of site like the temple you might be envisioning but a place that is more like the sites that appear on this blog (and others like it) than you might think.
And yes I know and remember well that flurry of activity about "Mayan Pyramids in Georgia" and all that, but just take a look at some random photos I took (forgetting to bring a tripod, so they may be a bit blurry and I apologize for that) barely a week ago...
And yes I know and remember well that flurry of activity about "Mayan Pyramids in Georgia" and all that, but just take a look at some random photos I took (forgetting to bring a tripod, so they may be a bit blurry and I apologize for that) barely a week ago...
The above "Rock Piles-like Mounds" are about here on the site map above, the south west slope below the more formal and much larger platform mounds, and below I can't resist adding a few shots of the "Beer Bottle Mounds," where I spotted an Obsidian Flake amongst the melange of artifacts... 
Every footsep I took was on some kind of an artifact, anthrosol or pottery:
Sometimes a projectile point:
Sometimes Human Bones:
Oh my god! Thank you Tim. It is SO weird to see a rock pile with palm trees on it.
ReplyDeleteWere there also larger pyramids?
ReplyDeleteThe Marco Gonzalez Site is thought to be a Trading Village - no pyramids or temples, just platform mounds. But as well as those familiar looking piles, there were some familiar looking "walls" on a "mysterious structure" that might be a residence (but I don't see how), a "construction stockpile" (but it's all so carefully stacked), or a lighthouse sort of thing...
ReplyDeleteJan Brown commented to me that these rock piles may just be tossed aside by looters or hurricanes and tides, no symbolism attached, but I mentioned to her that that is something a New England boy like me hears all the time re: rock piles here. She also loves to remind people who say they are open minded to be open minded...
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