Tag: maya
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Civilizations that counted up to a million
A month ago or so, I read a post asking an interesting question: when has been the first time a civilization managed to count up to a million? Even though the answer was already typed, it got me wondering… how many cultures and peoples reached such a high number in their numerical script, apart of…
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Maya civilization!
Lately I’ve been obsessed with the Maya culture, so I may write a lot about them. Most of their existence they had what we would call stone age tools, obsidian here and there, and metals only started being a thing after they were at their peak (widespread uttensils only after X century in most areas).…
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The wounded lioness
Something we take for granted (a lot) is that most anatomical and medical knowledge has been known for relatively little time, but here and there we get small clues proving that wasn’t exactly what happened. Yes, there was rampant misinformation and poor understanding of the human body processes. Stuff like the four humors, for example,…
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Testing, testing…
Here we are, on WordPress! Hello everyone, and welcome to my site! I’m Crodur, a 26 year old lurker that loves writting about what I find out on diferent human groups and experiences of the world. Mainly ancient and/or distant cultures, their similarities, diferences, symbols, themes, mythologies. linguistics… I started on tumblr, but I felt…
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