Dr. Marc Zender and Dr. Marcello Canuto are researchers at Tulane University's Middle American Research Institute who specialize in the history of the Mayan peoples. We talk about the similarities between the bronze-age collapse and the emptying-out of the Mayan homelands, discovery of more than 1,000 settlements long-hidden beneath the teeming canopy around Guatemala’s El Mirador, the difficult work of accurately reconstructing ancient history, and the sticky appeal of ancient aliens narratives.

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00:05:44 The Procession of Kings

00:09:45 Changing Paradigms of the Maya

00:16:10 A Constant Cultural Heart

00:33:14 The End of Culture

00:39:58 Propagation of a People

00:55:32 Cultural Areas & Conquest

01:05:05 Missing Stories

01:15:58 Oral Traditions and Song

01:32:03 The Cycle of Civilizations

01:44:17 Sacrifice

02:09:14 Graham Hancock

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