Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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This Rio Azul, I want to say this is late, early classics.
So this is probably like 500 or so AD, somewhere on there, Common Era.
500, 550, something like that.
And as far as sort of other inventions...
Another invention might be just, I mean, it's rather humble, right?
But like concrete, we're talking about concrete earlier.
The Maya did have a form of concrete.
Yeah, there it is.
It's got like a thing and then you push it down and you lock it in place.
It's really beautiful, actually.
No, they are beautiful.
They are beautiful.
This looks like something you would see in like someone's home today.
So what's really funny also is that, um, if you look in that image, uh, on the bottom there on the left, there's writing, right?
The ancient Maya had, we were writing, it was a writing system on the bottom.