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🗓️ 5 August 2017
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0:00.0 | Block Talk Radio. Oh, I'm going to be there. For August 5th, 2017, this is Earth Ancients. I'm your host Cliff Dunning. |
0:42.3 | Hey, I hope you're enjoying your summer as much as I am. |
0:46.7 | I'm getting out a lot more this year. I'm hiking a lot more and haven't been taking any trips. I'm saving my trips for the fall. |
0:57.4 | Yeah, I'm going to Mexico. I hope you can join me. We'll talk about that later. |
1:02.4 | You know the good the good weather allows for more activity and and we haven't had a lot of hot days so I'm getting out more. I really appreciate it. I really enjoyed the longer days too. |
1:17.0 | And I'm having more time to write. Now I'm writing a book called The Maya Controversy based on some new discoveries. |
1:27.0 | And one of the weird characters in Mayan research is a guy named Augustus Lee Pliong and he was a early |
1:38.7 | photographer in the late 1800s when photography was in his real infancy where they used glass plates treated |
1:46.7 | with chemicals that when light was shut on him was impressed onto on to the glass. |
1:53.2 | And he actually was an early, what you might consider an archaeologist, |
1:58.8 | you know, he didn't get a degree in archaeology. |
2:01.6 | He was a learned man. He got a doctor degree, was a physician, treated |
2:09.2 | people, very bright guy. I had multiple degrees and various subjects and he and his wife |
2:16.5 | Alice headed down to Yucatan when it was the Wild West when there were still infighting between the Mexican |
2:29.6 | government and the Maya and you could get killed down there but he made his way to places like Chichenica, |
2:39.8 | Ushmo and some of the smaller cities and actually photographed them before they were |
2:47.6 | excavated. |
2:48.6 | These are, this is like in the 1890s and early 1900s. His most famous works are in the 1890s and we really get to see the level of erosion from these massive buildings before they were touched. |
3:07.2 | And they're really helpful for me because I can see, and most people can also see the level of damage that the water impressed on these |
3:17.8 | buildings, everything from the pyramid, the main pyramid or the magician in Ushma to everything from the observatory to |
3:27.2 | El Kostelia which is the main pyramid at Chichen Itza to the ball court to most of the buildings were just hammered by either |
3:38.2 | tsunamis or the undulating action of water and then when the water receded the buildings were left just basically in piles. |
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