{"id":1369,"date":"2015-05-10T09:48:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T15:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2015-05-10T09:51:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T15:51:23","slug":"ancient-urban-planning-the-mayans-were-engineers-architects-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/ancient-urban-planning-the-mayans-were-engineers-architects-astronomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient urban planning.  The Mayans were engineers, architects, astronomers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists have known for many years that Mayan civilization was sophisticated, but this new discovery that they built on a grid is exciting. \u00a0They designed at least some of their cities to have standardized &#8220;blocks.&#8221; \u00a0Is there a social significance to each block? \u00a0Did they have a block for potters and weavers? \u00a0A block where Traders set up their wares? \u00a0A block where the elite lived? \u00a0For metal workers? \u00a0Well, more work needs to be done, but we suspect they did. \u00a0Like any city planner, Mayan planners probably included utility and status into their designs. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mayan-urban-planning.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mayan-urban-planning.jpg\" alt=\"Mayan urban planning\" width=\"162\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Maya-and-climate-change.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Maya-and-climate-change-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Maya and climate change\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Maya-and-climate-change-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Maya-and-climate-change-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Maya-and-climate-change.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/50659-early-mayan-city-mapped.html?adbid=z13ahbywfxzwz5nnm23hjlf5zoq3gfgzl04&amp;adbpl=gp&amp;adbpr=101164570444913213957&amp;short_code=2w9o9\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/50659-early-mayan-city-mapped.html?adbid=z13ahbywfxzwz5nnm23hjlf5zoq3gfgzl04&amp;adbpl=gp&amp;adbpr=101164570444913213957&amp;short_code=2w9o9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists have known for many years that Mayan civilization was sophisticated, but this new discovery that they built on a grid is exciting. \u00a0They designed at least some of their cities to have standardized &#8220;blocks.&#8221; \u00a0Is there a social significance to each block? \u00a0Did they have a block for potters and weavers? \u00a0A block where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,66,236,94,96,250,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}