Excellent video – How the Maya commoners lived – Revised

The August 1970 image above is a snapshot that I made from a Jeep window, while passing a domestic compound that seemed to date from the early 1800s or earlier. It was located in the un-mapped section of eastern Campeche, where there was no evidence of modern civilization, except a single, narrow paved highway running north-south. Most of the people here didn’t even have horses, much less, automobiles. They walked everywhere on one lane dirt “Jeep trails.”

The oval-shapped, Pre-Columbian Maya commoner houses that you will see in this video are identical to the houses that archaeologist Robert Wauchope unearthed at the Eastwood Site, here in the Nacoochee Valley during 1939. Wauchope estimated that the village was founded between around 550 AD and 600 AD and abandoned around 1000 AD. Look very closely under the word choko in the upper image and you will see a woman scooping water from a rainwater basin into a bucket.

Eastwood Village around 800 AD in the Nacoochee Valley of Georgia

Some readers are complaining that they cannot access the video below from The Americas Revealed. You can go to YouTube and access it. The title is: “How the Mayas Really Lived – Every Detail Explained.” It is really an excellent video and worth the trouble.