{"id":4975,"date":"2013-04-22T15:12:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T05:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2013-04-22T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T05:12:26","slug":"dec-2012-end-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2013\/04\/dec-2012-end-date-4975.html","title":{"rendered":"Further Evidence for a Dec 2012 End Date"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find it a little odd, but not at all surprising, that 2012 debunkers are now seizing on evidence that Dec 21 2012 was<\/em> the end of the Long Count calendar (now that the world didn’t end). Of course last year that were latching on to anything that suggested 2012 was not the year.<\/p>\n

For me though, nothing has changed. 21 Dec 2012 is still the date, and IMHO we are still close enough to that date for it to be proven correct. Hopefully not.<\/p>\n

An example of the confusion this has caused is the date of a decisive battle that shaped the course of Mayan civilisation. It occurred 1,390,838 days from the start of the count, but attempts to transcribe this into the European calendar have given estimates that vary by hundreds of years.<\/p>\n
Anthropologists led by Douglas Kennett at Pennsylvania State University took a sample from a carved wooden lintel found at a temple in the city of Tikal. The carvings recount the key event when Tikal’s king, Jasaw Chan K’awiil I, defeated Yich’aak K’ahk, known as ”Claw of Fire”, who headed a rival kingdom at Calakmul, 90 kilometres away.<\/p>\n
Using a technique called accelerator mass spectrometry, the team concluded the tree was cut down and carved about AD658-696. The estimate closely matches that of a decades-old benchmark for Mayan dating, the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson method, which put the battle at about AD695-712.<\/p>\n
Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/world\/beam-holds-clue-to-mayan-calendar-20130412-2hqqu.html#ixzz2RAAj4jWg<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The tree wasn’t necessarily carved immediately after it was chopped down, so it is a very good fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I find it a little odd, but not at all surprising, that 2012 debunkers are now seizing on evidence that Dec 21 2012 was the end of the Long Count calendar (now that the world didn’t end). Of course last year that were latching on to anything that suggested 2012 was not the year.
\nFor me though, nothing has changed. 21 Dec 2012 is still the date, and IMHO we are still close enough to that date for it to be proven correct. Hopefully not.
\nAn example of the confusion this has caused is the date of a decisive battle that shaped the course of Mayan civilisation. It occurred 1,390,838 days from the start of the count, but attempts to transcribe this into the European calendar have given estimates that vary by hundreds of years.
\nAnthropologists led by Douglas Kennett at Pennsylvania State University took a sample from a carved wooden lintel found …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mayan-calendar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}