Andrew Schulz
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it's based around the city of Tikal.
Which the city of Tikal becomes the rebel base in Star Wars.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
But I'm sorry, what were you asking me about?
Here in Honduras, there's a place called Copan.
And at Copan, there is evidence that there's all kinds of ways that you can date events and drought.
And if you can find pieces of timber, you can date the timber and figure out when they're not using timber anymore.
It's a lot of relative dating methods.
Mines, edelmen, change in weather.
That's right.
We're there.
Yeah, we got it.
Still haven't told us.
So you could pull up the Maya city called Copan, C-O-P-A-N.
It's in Honduras.
And at this site, there is evidence that they were cutting down the trees in the use for their architecture.
So what they would do is, I can't quite explain.
You have to be like a chemist or...
Scientists like really break down how they make stucco, but they're cutting down so many trees to make what's called stucco.
We use stucco in modern day architecture as well.