The Mogollon are a little known ancient civilization of  the American Southwest.  But you probably know them and just don't know you know them, you know?  And if you really don't know them, they're worth knowing.

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Mayan Calendar - see the 2026 Mayan Calendar at https://www.mayan-calendar.com

Bars and Dots, Maya date calculator software - https://www.barsanddots.com

Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
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The Moche were an amazingly advanced civilization who lived along Peru's northern coast from about 100 to 750 CE.  In this episode, I'll explain how I believe that they were monotheistic, worshipping a creator deity I call the Fanged Deity.

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Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
https://www.mayaexploration.org

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The Fanged Deity is a ubiquitous character in ancient Andean art.  His identity as the same creator deity over thousands of years, through multiple cultures and from Columbia to Chile, is my own potentially paradigm shifting theory.  Join me as I explain why I believe the religions of ancient South America were essentially monotheistic.

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Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
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Season 3 is coming on September 1st!

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Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
https://www.mayaexploration.org

Check out Ed's YouTube Channel, Archaeologist Ed Barnhart

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Part two of the last episode. Stories of my 3rd and 4th seasons mapping Ma'ax Na and some other crazy stuff that happened in my career in 1996 and 1997.

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Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
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Back in the 1990's, I discovered the ancient Maya city of Ma'ax Na in the remote jungles of Northwestern Belize.  This podcast tells the story of how I did it.

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Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
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The moment of contact between Europe and the Americas in the 15th century brought with it a host of infectious diseases.  The result was the spread of epidemics at a scale and speed the world had never known.

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Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
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The Inca Khipu - knotted string records of the Inca Empire.  The amazingly organized Inca civilization of over 10 million people was kept running smoothly through the use of the khipu, essentially the Inca "writing" system.  But sadly, the world forgot how to read them.  This episode will explain what they are, what we know about them, and our most recent attempts to crack the khipu code.

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Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
https://www.mayaexploration.org

Check out Ed's YouTube Channel, Archaeologist Ed Barnhart

https://www.youtube.com/@Ed_Barnhart

Chaco Canyon is without doubt the finest ancient architecture within the modern United States.  The Ancestral Pueblo built it over a 300 year period between 850-1150 CE, but the strange thing is - they barely lived there.  Join me as we discuss the "Chaco Phenomenon". 

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Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
https://www.mayaexploration.org

Check out Ed's YouTube Channel, Archaeologist Ed Barnhart

https://www.youtube.com/@Ed_Barnhart

From 1539 to 1542, Hernando de Soto led an army of Spanish conquistadors through what is now the southeastern United States.  What his men saw and documented during those three years was amazing.  What they did was psychotic.    

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Ed's day job is Director of Maya Exploration Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit
https://www.mayaexploration.org

Check out Ed's YouTube Channel, Archaeologist Ed Barnhart

https://www.youtube.com/@Ed_Barnhart