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GUATEMALA CITY - Carbon dating performed on temple Guatemalan anthropologist is a way to determine the accuracy of the Mayan calendar age. Experts have long been at odds over whether the Mayan calendar correlated with the European calendar.
Reported by ABC, Friday (04/12/2013), the ancient texts and carvings depict the ruler of the Mayan culture and major events. Attribute date in accordance with complex system represented by a point and a particular form, known as the Long Count or Count length.
"Long Count Calendar is not in use before European settlers made contact in the Maya area," said researcher Douglas J Kennett of Pennsylvania State University. He said the method of tying the Long Count calendar is used for modern European historical and astronomical events.
"However, when looking at how climate affects the rise and fall of Maya, I began to question how accurate the two calendars correlated using these methods," said Kennett.
The study, published in Scientific Reports perubaan support the hypothesis that the climate plays an important role in the development and collapse of Maya civilization. Long Count calendar consists of five units of time: Bak'tun (144,000 days), K'atun (7,200 days), Tun (360 days), Winal (20 days) and K'in (one day).
Wikipedia explains, carbon dating is a technique that uses the decay of carbon-14 to estimate the age of organic material. The organic materials such as wood and leather, up to approximately 58 thousand to 62 thousand years.
This technique was initiated by the scientist Willard Libby in 1949, where he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Generally, this technique is also used to determine the age of fossils of living creatures, and other historical relics. (FMH)
http://techno.okezone.com/read/2013/04/12/56/790363/penanggalan-karbon-tentukan-usia-kalendar-suku-maya
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