Andrew Schulz

So you make the platform bigger and then it becomes bigger and then it becomes bigger, but you do it out of earth, but the earth erodes.

So then you gotta do it with something strong or you gotta do it with stone.

So you're trying just to survive in this hellish jungle environment.

And they have a lot of stone bedrock, which is why like in the Amazon, it's all clay.

So they don't have anything there.

Well, when you get halfway through the Amazon, you got more granite bedrock that sits out here, but a lot of here it's just clay swamps.

And so in the Maya world, that is where we see the first stone pyramids pop up.

There's one in a place called Coelho, Belize.

I was just in Belize maybe a month ago or so.

And it's just a little pyramid, like maybe the size of this room.

And that dates beyond 1000 BC.

Wow.

And then it kind of spreads out from there into the Paten jungle in Guatemala.

There's a site there called El Mirador in Nakbe.

And those sites go back to... Yeah, so that's Coelho.

That's a little bitty site that most people don't know about.

If you look up El Mirador pyramid... So these pyramids are absolutely massive.

So that one, that's El Mirador.

So get this.

That's just the little tiny top section of the pyramid.