3662 Back into Guatemala. (2nd time)
3662 That Czech expedition also had its border problems right here.
3663 The road: liquid concrete; the roadside: bland putty.
3663 Clouds of insects shedding their wings on us.
3665 Uaxactún, archaeological site.
3667 Skirmish:
between a potential lunch (squirrel) and an eager luncher (snake).>*Sna
3667 Tical, archaeological site.
3669 Troglodytic architecture.
Plain truth: Mayan "temples" are glorified cubical oratories;
Mayan "palaces" are glorified tenements;
no matter what archaeologists and tourism agencies say.
3670 Clues to the beginning of the Mayas (known for the time being).
3670 Clues to the economic basis of the Mayas.
3671 Clues to the end of the Mayas (known for the time being).
3671 Recycling of sculptures.
3674 A date to be pondered (engraved in stone by the Mayas):
5,042,277 years and, to be exact, 348.5 days.
Not the only date of such a caliber.
3675 The intimate art of whimsical sketches improvised on walls.
3677 Mayan concepts (Arithmetic, Chronometry, Astronomy).
3677 We learned, the hard way, how ancient people could (and anybody today >>>>>can) observe celestial phenomena with the precision of a split hair.
3679 The one jungle for timorous adventurers.
3680 Río Azul, a master tale of archaeorobbers and archaeologists.
3682 "Rainy season" is more than the rains.
3683 New kind of worry:
some type of flaw inside one of our photographic lenses.
3683 Aleatory counterpoint of marimbas.
3685 An expedition seeking Petén-Peru link.
3685 Some Mayan toponyms do sound Slav.
3687 Monkeys are experts in ballistics.
3687 How terrifying is their howling.
3687 Possible life, possible death, possible fossils in a puddle.
3687 Monkeys also build bridges.
3690 Last unconquered Mayas: till 1697.
3690 Desirable characteristics in archaeological pieces for international >>>>>trafficking.
3691 Mini-jungle burnt for rudimentary planting.
3691 The catchy development, even if maybe only fortuitous, from the shapeless >>>>>Vespuccian mounds to the precise, svelte, peneobelisks in Tical.
3691 Between 15 and 30 kilometers per hour.
3691 Guerrilla country.
3694 Asphalt, magic carpet.
3695 Brainlessness.
3695 Quiriguá, archaeological site.
3696 All those Asian-looking statues.
3701 Bananas for export; the tasty ones do not qualify.
3704 The successful Black Christ of Esquipulas.