pf30146788e t1_j19usvi wrote on December 22, 2022 at 6:59 PM

Reply to comment by Lord0fHats in Discovery of 1,000 previously unknown Maya settlements challenges the old notion of sparse early human occupation in northern Guatemala (ca. 1000 B.C.–A.D. 150) by marketrent

Correct much of this isn’t really new to people who have even been in these areas for a while. The locals will even tell you there are ruins here or there, and that nobody is doing anything with them. But if he wants to get the funding for professional archaeology, he needs to bring it to the masses as a “discovery,” but in reality none of this is new.

OlasNah t1_j1c8wcx wrote on December 23, 2022 at 5:49 AM

There’s places like that even in the US. But they are on land that people don’t want seized or whatever by the govt so they don’t tell anyone about it.