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  2. Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - Wikipedia

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    Maya numerals. Long Count dates are written with Mesoamerican numerals, as shown on this table. A dot represents 1 while a bar equals 5. The shell glyph was used to represent the zero concept. The Long Count calendar required the use of zero as a place-holder and presents one of the earliest uses of the zero concept in history.

  3. Maya calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, [1] Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. [ 2 ] The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region, dating back to at least the 5th century BC.

  4. Mesoamerican calendars - Wikipedia

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    To measure dates over periods longer than 52 years, the Mesoamericans devised the Long Count calendar. This calendar system was probably developed by the Olmecs and later adopted by the Maya. [citation needed] The use of the long count is best attested among the classic Maya, it is not known to have been used by the central Mexican cultures.

  5. Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan ...

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    “Rather than limit their focus to any one planet,” the authors write, “the Maya astronomers who created the 819-day count envisioned it as a larger calendar system that could be used for ...

  6. Kʼin - Wikipedia

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    A Kʼin (Mayan pronunciation:) is a part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to one day.It is the smallest unit of Maya time to be counted as part of the long count and it usually appears as the last glyph in a long count date.

  7. Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan ...

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    The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of ...

  8. Baktun - Wikipedia

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    A baktun / ˈ b ɑː k t uː n / [1] (properly bʼakʼtun) is 20 kʼatun cycles of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar. It contains 144,000 days, equal to 394.26 tropical years . The Classic period of Maya civilization occurred during the 8th and 9th baktuns of the current calendrical cycle.

  9. Maya numerals - Wikipedia

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    The earliest long count date (on Stela 2 at Chiappa de Corzo, Chiapas) is from 36 BC. [a] Since the eight earliest Long Count dates appear outside the Maya homeland, [7] it is assumed that the use of zero and the Long Count calendar predated the Maya, and was possibly the invention of the Olmec. Indeed, many of the earliest Long Count dates ...