Richard Hansen: The Magnificent PreClassic Maya, Conquest of El Mirador

Earth Ancients

Cliff Dunning

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 8 August 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Richard D. Hansen is an American archaeologist and adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Utah

Hansen is a noted specialist on the ancient Maya civilization and directs the Mirador Basin Project, which investigates a circumscribed geological and cultural area known as the Mirador Basin in the northern Petén, Guatemala.[1][2] He has previously held positions at the University of California, Los Angeles and Idaho State University where he was awarded the Idaho State University Distinguished Achievement Award (2009). He is also the founder and president of the Foundation for Anthropological Research and Environmental Studies (FARES) which is a 501 (c) (3) non profit scientific charitable organization formed in 1996 which seeks to: (1) conduct multidisciplinary investigations of the Mirador Basin region of northern Guatemala; (2) Conduct extensive conservation and preservation programs of both the cultural and environmental heritage of Guatemala; (3) Provide literacy, educational, and vocational training opportunities and provide for the economic development of impoverished communities in northern Guatemala. His work has been featured in 31 film documentaries and was the principal consultant for the movie Apocalypto (Mel Gibson) (Hansen 2012a), CBS Survivor Guatemala, and National Geographic's The Story of God with Morgan Freeman. Hansen has worked in the Mesoamerican region and early Maya civilization since 1978.

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0:00.0	Well, this is a big week for us. I've been talking about Dr. Richard Hansen for a number of months.
0:06.0	We're going to hear from him today on what's going on with El Medador, this huge massive complex of pyramids now recognized as the largest in the
0:19.1	Americas in Guatemala. This is a up close and personal look at El Meador, the LIDAR work that's been conducted there.
0:29.0	Its connection to the 60,000 plus complex that was discovered two years ago and some new
0:36.0	revelations about the age and the use of El Medor which now stands to be exceedingly old inception date of 2000 BC.
0:50.2	Later, Jindeo takes us to Russia, and a new structure they're calling the Russian Stonehenge.
0:57.0	This is a facility that was used continually for thousands of years by various people who lived in the area and
1:05.2	Jim's going to present details on this structure that is now extremely old.
1:10.9	All this in the news today on Earth Ancients. I'm going to be able to be able to be able to feel Oh, oh, oh, that's all.
1:33.0	Oh, me is a good.
1:35.0	He is the good
1:40.0	and the world, and he is Agents. I'm your host. This is Cliff
1:57.0	Cliff Dunning.
1:59.0	Hey, how are you?
2:00.0	This is Cliff, your host of Earth Ancients.
2:02.4	I hope you're doing well today. This is
2:02.8	doing well today.
2:04.8	I hope you're doing well today.
2:04.8	I hope you're outside or at least getting some sun and enjoying our summer.
2:11.9	Man, this year's going quick. Hey, I've gotten a lot of response from our
2:18.9	guest last week, Rory Duff, and he is going to be producing a map of these sound locations.
2:30.0	He mentioned a couple in the United States. one of them is close to me on Mount Diablo but I'd like to check him out and he's given me a hint the day before an equinox or a solstice is the day
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