Some sense at last – the Maya did not collapse because of drought!
Posted On: Feb 19th, 2017 at 23:39
Mexico
As many of my theories on our past are slowly proven correct, I should be the world’s leading theoretical archaeologist by now!
And here’s another one.
For years I have been extremely irritated by the generally accepted theory that the two great Maya “collapses” were caused by drought. I find this one of the dumbest theories out there. First of all, Mexico lies in a tropical climate, and while there may be less rainfall in certain years, drought is an extremely unlikely scenario for an entire civilisation to seemingly disappear. Like the Nazca Lines, in which the prevailing theory is that they were created in relation to a water cult because there was supposedly little water, the same stupid idea has been placed on the Maya. Like the Nazca, the Maya had plenty of water. And if you are running out of water, you move to an area where there IS water. You don’t spend centuries making lines in the earth in the hope that gods may bring it to you. People are NOT that stupid, and these arrogant archaeologists who assume our ancestors were “primitive” need to be lined up against a wall and shot.
If we go back to the Maya collapse(s), it has always been obvious to me that other reasons caused the people to “disappear” and abandon their cities. The obvious explanation is internal, tribal warfare on a large scale, reminiscent of today’s civil wars.
Thankfully new research is suggesting exactly that – the Maya collapsed due to social instability, political strife, and internal warfare, the latter of which would be the final phase of such upheavals. No doubt the idiotic old guard will say drought preceded those issues, but I can assure you there was no drought involved in the collapse of the Maya.
At least there are some sensible archaeologists out there who think outside the box, because if there weren’t we’d be stuck in the dark ages of archaeological research forever.
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-archaeologists-uncover-clues-maya-collapse.html