After reading this article, I don’t think that it really presents any truly revolutionary ideas in archaeology and history. Also, I don’t think that there is any real evidence that supports the idea that the Ancient Chinese made contact with the Ancient Maya. Here are some reasons why:
The primary evidence cited in this article for contact between the Chinese and the Maya seems to be focused on similarities between the calendar systems. For example, both the Chinese and Maya calendars include depictions of animals and the four elements (Chinese civilization includes wood). Even though one could argue that this demonstrates contact, it could also just be coincidence. Both the Chinese and Mayan civilization were both sophisticated and skilled at astronomy and calendar formation. They also both used logograms, however, if there really was contact between the two civilizations we would likely see the writing systems look similar to each other which doesn’t seem to be the case. The logograms of China don’t share great resemblance to the hieroglyphics of the Maya.
In order to really demonstrate that there was contact you will need to provide evidence such as DNA analysis. We know that during the Last Ice Age, there was a land bridge on the present-day Bering Strait. It was here that people came from Northeastern Asia and crossed into the Americas. This is demonstrated by evidence from DNA, artifacts, and the morphology of the early peoples in the Americas.
Further, if there really was any contact between the two civilizations we would likely see other artifacts that demonstrated they encountered each other. Context is key to archaeology and encounters with other cultures usually require several varieties of artifacts to be present at a site. Are there any Chinese tools in Mexico from the Ancient Chinese? Is there any maize or beans from the Maya in China? Are there similarities in architecture that demonstrate any groups influence on the other? Again, I don’t see enough artifacts that belong to the Ancient Chinese or the Ancient Maya that indicate any sort of contact.
I took a look at David H. Kelley’s bibliography and he is a well-respected archaeologist and epigrapher specializing in the Maya Civilization. However, I don’t find any evidence that suggests that he believes the Ancient Maya and the Ancient Chinese made contact with each other. If there really was contact between the two civilizations, wouldn’t most archaeologists know this? How could this be unknown to several different specialists? I recommend you look at some articles from Jason Colavito, Michael Coe, Kenneth Feder. These are some great professional archaeologists that you should look into reading.
I hope that you continue finding new information and be sure to think with a critical eye.
These two civilizations and technologies were entirely different, never signs of mingling. Their similarity in a calendar is also a clear faux pas but it points to even more ancient knowledge of the cosmos. This elemental concept is most likely due to pre-migratory understandings and way of life and can be in no way linked with contact unless they were going back and forth between land bridges or practicing shamanism together and the future Mayans decided to kick rocks
For the sake of an argument, you are stating without DNA proof, these civilizations were isolated from each other without contact. Yet, mathematics and building techniques on different continents, roughly at the same point on the human time line, are too similar not to have knowledge of each other. Take for instance, the megalithic stone monuments from Egypt and Mayan cultures. Different dialogue and artifacts, as mentioned, but both share cubits, alignment, and similar construction methodology not to mention pyramids from around the globe, off the coast of Japan, China etc. Tracing DNA is incompatible with the math of our ancients. Math and stone masonry is a taught and acquired belief system no matter the race that wields it..
Blood chemistry, alleles tell the story of human migration and of late, European “migration” into the Americas. Europeans initially migrated into their now respective countries in waves and eventually lost their melanine during the winter months. Indigenous South, Central and North America, see blood allele chemistry have UNIQUE DNA and they did not migrate from the land bridge, the lastest try to support that theory now say they boated along the coastline, the “boat people theory”. Consensus have the Olmec as the root civilzation of Mesoamerica and they seriously look African! Just check the #Olmec on this site. North American Indians aka Mayans migrated onto the plains, e.g., Iroquois Confederacy have Mayan DNA and were introducing agriculture (corn-beans-squash) to the hunter-gather tribes to the North, when the modern record starts, e.g., Cahokia. Oral and recorded history the “Navajo” are in fact Tli Cho Indians from Northern Canada. This strongly indicates, Africans are indeed the originators on both continents. The Moche culture in Peru also have unique alleles. WRT Asia & eastern Europe, DNA and allele evidence clearly demonstrate migrantion from the Tibetan Plateau, i.e., Mughars, Aryans, Saphafids, Chinese. In summary, Gondwanians evolved separately from a common root, imho.http://www.bloodbook.com/world-abo.html
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Polaris