Mesoamerican calendars

Ancient · Household · 1100 BCE

TL;DR

Mesoamerican calendars - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Mesoamerican calendars - requires enrichment

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Mesoamerican calendars:

Maya numerals and zero

Independent Emergence

Evidence of inevitability—this invention emerged independently in multiple locations:

Maya civilization

Parallel development

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence Convergent Evolution

Related Inventions

Maya numerals and zero

Tags

Timekeeping

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