Super-Aerial Archaeology
The Super-Aerial Archaeology blog entry is to a news story about using satellite imagery to find archaeological sites in jungle settings, something that is becoming more common these days. But, the San Bartolo site mentioned here is very familiar to me, because it was the basis of the first article I've ever had published in ScienceNow, on January 6th of this year.
San Bartolo contains a pyramid built in at least six stages between about 400 and 100 BC. The murals recovered from the walls of the pyramid are in absolutely beautiful shape, and one of the earliest (if not the earliest) string of Maya characters was found there. I should be able to post something more substantial on San Bartolo within the next few days.
The link to my article at ScienceNow is posted here, but you have to be a subscriber to read it today:
Maya Writing Got Early Start
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