Message #192903

[Renaud]

The Mayans are a recent group of people who have not even been around for a thousand years let alone 11,600.

Actually, that's wrong.  The Mayans have been around, at minimum for nearly five thousand years.  Their earliest settlement, at Cuello in Belize has been carbon dated to around 2600 BC.  As for the Mayan Calendar, it commences on a date equivalent to 11 August, 3114 BC.  I don't know where you got the idea that the Mayans have been around for less than a 1,000 years, but its wrong.