Some of the ancient structures in the world still captivate our imagination and astonish us till this day. Like Stonehenge one of the most recognizable and famous sites in the world. Additionally the Mayan civilization, that immediately reminds you of the prediction of the end of the world. Hence to extend our knowledge about the Stonehenge and the Mayan civilization I am going to talk about their culture, beliefs and their surroundings.
The Mayan civilization was able to adapt itself amongst the harsh conditions and was able to live till today. The Mayan civilization was located in Mexico and Central America before the 16th century called Mesoamerica. The Maya lived in 3 separate environments which caused cultural differences. Around 1800B.C. the Maya were agricultural using slash-burn system, and has had several techniques that raised their fields. Their agriculture contains of squashes, beans, cotton and various kinds of fruit trees. In addition the Mayans are advanced in cultural traits like pyramids building, city construction and stone monuments. The Mayan style of art consist of weapons made from parts of animals, also they are famous with pyramids and calendars.
Around 250 A.D the Mayan civilization was consistent of 40 cities and each city held a population of 5.000 and 50.000 people. At its peak the Mayan civilization reached 2.000.000. The Maya were very religious people worshiping various Gods related to nature. Like the Gods of the sun, corn, moon and rain.
Coming to the Stonehenge, located in Britain which is the most prehistoric monument. The first Stonehenge was built in around 2600 B.C. The stones form a circle about 284 feet in diameter. Construction of the Stonehenge continued from the moment it was built. Two ...
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...pagan civilization. This theory has very small evidence to support it and seems to be based more on prejudices of early humans before modern religion than anything else.
It seems that the purpose of this structure can only be theorized. The true purpose of Stonehenge seems to be lost to time.
In conclusion, I believe the reason for the Mayan civilization to diminish, is overpopulation since they have exhausted their lands and it couldn’t sustain more population. Additionally another cause was their complex traditions of rituals and ceremonies. Finally the harsh environmental condition since they lack water. But Mayans are still alive till this day but located in different locations. The Stonehenge in now considered the most famous sites in the world. Approximately 800.00 tourists visit it every year. It has undergone to several restorations to prevent its collapse.
It is very likely that most people have heard about the Mayan Civilization in one way or another. Whether fictitious or factual, this ancient culture iw idelt recognized. The Mayan people lived from about 250 to 900 CE in Mesoamerica. Which includes modern day Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and parts of southern Mexico.These people had many remarkable achievements, all of which can fit under the categories of scale, genius effort, and significance. These achievements include an advanced trade system, an amazing understanding of numbers, and the ability to design and build cities that are still mostly standing today. However, their most impressive achievement is their complex calendars.
Standing there over such a long time, it has been the subject of research and mystery in general, for a really long time. Dozens of notable scientists, emperors and others expressed their admiration and interest through different means of explorations and excavations. There have been various theories on how it was built, and what the purpose of it was, and some of them are really intriguing and interesting such. Some thought it was built as a solar-lunar calendar, some said that it had medical purposes for the giants that had built it, it was considered a ceremonial place, temple of veneration, a portal and lastly but not less important, there were some associations of Stonehenge to the aliens. The two specific theories on the Stonehenge’s importance will be discussed and summarized in this essay.
There are some, however, who have speculated as to what the giant stone structure could have been constructed for. Theories such as observatory, burial grounds, temple, and others are much debated among those who care to look into these matters. Among those who do not care to question its existence, Stonehenge is just a large pile of huge stones that happen to make a circle. No matter which side a person might take, there is no definite way to prove what Stonehenge was used for. There is no way to know because there are no written records of the construction of Stonehenge, there are not even depictive carvings on the stones themselves that suggest a purpose to the massive
However, that meaning is not always known. It is believed that Stonehenge was most likely made to bring people of a community together as well as to mark a place where individuals could gather to perform rituals, although many theories about why it was built and the purpose it serves exist. For example, recent studies show that the monument may mark the graveyard of a ruling dynasty. There is evidence of over 200 cremated human remains that have been buried at the site within a period of 500 years. Some evidence suggests the site may have been a piece in a larger series of structures used for funerary rituals. The only thing that is knows for sure “is that Stonehenge held meaning for the Neolithic community that built it”
What is Stonehenge? What is known about this monument (such as the date it was created and what the monument might have originally looked like)?
The Maya didn’t discover metallurgy until late in the Classic period and used it only to produce jewelry and decorations for the elite. Artists and their numerous assistants cut and filled the stones used for palaces, pyramids, and housing, aided only by levers and stone tools. Each wave of construction represented the mobilization of thousands of laborers.
The Maya were an advanced society, rich and full extraordinary architecture with great complexity of patterns and variety of expressions, that flourished in Mesoamerica long before the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century. They were skilled architects, building prodigious cities of primarily of limestone that remain a thousand years after their civilization fell into decline. Greatness and Grandeur was the signature of all Mayan cities, from the terminal pre-classic period and continued until the abandonment of all the city states by the beginning of the ninth century. The Maya built pyramids, temples, palaces, walls, residences and more. The limestone structures, faced with lime stucco, were the hallmark of ancient Maya architecture.
“Stonehenge is one of the most impressive prehistoric megalithic monuments in the world on account of the sheer size of its megaliths, the sophistication of its concentric plan and architectural design, the shaping of the stones, uniquely using both Wiltshire Sarsen sandstone and Pembroke Bluestone, and the precision with which it was built.
There is a prehistoric and mysterious monument on Salisbury Plain about which we have restrict-ed information: Stonehenge. For years there have been claimed plenty of arguments about Stone-henge; some people think that it was created by aliens and many people associate it with Druids and Merlin. On this paper, it will be instructed when Stonehenge was built, by whom it was built and what theories were about Stonehenge’s mystery.
Stonehenge is one of the most mysterious landmarks in the world. This stone circle is covered with a veil of mystery just waiting to be pulled open, to answer all of our questions. Thread by thread Archeologist work to unravel the mystery of Stonehenge, to discovery where it came from and who built it. Some skeptics don’t believe that there’s anything more Stonehenge than just a few rocks that stand. That’s why Archeologists aren’t going to rest until the truth of Stonehenge is clear.
The Mayans were a great powerful group of people that followed what they believed in, build big beautiful temples. The Maya build a big temple inside the big jungle of southern Mexico. The temple is so big that you can see it from high in the sky. You can still see the temple today, but the temple lays in ruins because of the thick jungle that have grown over it. At that temple, they sacrificed people for the gods. If the Mayans had died out because of all the desices the Spanish brought we could have learned more about them.
In the Central America, most notably the Yucatan Peninsula, are the Maya, a group of people whose polytheistic religion and advanced civilization once flourished (Houston, 43). The Maya reached their peak during the Classic Period from around CE 250 to the ninth century CE when the civilization fell and dispersed (Sharer, 1). Although much has been lost, the gods and goddesses and the religious practices of the Classic Maya give insight into their lives and reveal what was important to this society.
"Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fall?" Out of the Past. Annenburg/CPB Multimedia. 1998. *http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/mayans.html* (30 Jan. 2001).
Human began to revolutionize away from hunting and gathering. Human life begin toward agriculture. During this period was where monumental sculpture began. It started with skull restoration. There were now more human painting instead of animal. There was a lot of megalithic found during this time. Megaliths. (Great stone) was using for honoring the death. There were all unique arrangement of megaliths also known as Stonehenge. Stonehenge it was actually a big, ancient calendar designed to keep track of time and important astronomical events. However, it could had been representation of religious shrine. Majority of the Stonehenge pointed to where the sun rise. Could it mean that they believed in higher being and rebirth? The most famous megalithic monument in Europe is Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in southern England. A henge is an arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle. Could had been some kind of ritual? Even today we still can guess of all the possibility. Art has millions of meanings, there is no one right
The Maya culture has a long history that started in about 1000 BC. The history of the Maya is divided up into four different time periods: The Middle Preclassic Period, Late Preclassic Period, Classic Period, and Postclassic Period. The Middle Preclassic Period was when the small areas started to become city-like in the way that they started to build larger temples. The Late Preclassic Period was when the cities began to expand with paved roads and massive pyramids. The Classic Period was the time the Maya civilization hit it’s peak. Populations were growing rapidly and the structure of politics was formed. The Postclassic Period was when warfare was on the rise and cities were being abandoned(Coe 2005). This paper will focus on the Classic Period due to the fact that that is the greatest time period in Maya history.