I got involved with Mirador by by
invitation from two scholars since I
spoke Spanish where they were exploring
the swamps surrounding Madrid or and
while we were there they put me in
charge of the architecture because of
the massive scale of buildings there and
I discovered the antiquity of the city
was on those big buildings the problem
was that at the time that I was doing
this the pre-classic were hunters and
gatherers so you can imagine that
dilemma if some somebody would have
called Gordon Willey at Harvard and say
there’s some student named Anson who
says that there were huge pre-classic
cities within seventy-two meter high
pyramids he just said that guy’s fault
that crap hung up so it took me 20 years
to convince my colleagues if this was
real the data was real that there were
massive pre-classic cities centuries
before the time of Christ a thousand
years earlier than this stuff and these
guys were sophisticated they were
complex and they told the story of
humanity that we’ve never seen before
the saga is there’s a there’s the
origins of complexity the dynamics of
complexity and the collapse of
complexity and that’s the whole whole
gamut we we know we can’t see our
origins we can only live in the present
we can’t see our future but in for the
lens of archaeology you can see the
whole gamut you can see the beginnings
the things they did that or originated
their social so the economic and
political sophistication you can see the
dynamics of their society maintain that
and you can see what took them to hell
and when you look at all those factors
you say oh my gosh that’s humanity and
then you start looking along our own
government you say mm-hmm we’re doing
some things right and we’re doing some
things very very very wrong because we
can see that to that lens through that
window of archaeology that we don’t have
any other means to detect that
invitation from two scholars since I
spoke Spanish where they were exploring
the swamps surrounding Madrid or and
while we were there they put me in
charge of the architecture because of
the massive scale of buildings there and
I discovered the antiquity of the city
was on those big buildings the problem
was that at the time that I was doing
this the pre-classic were hunters and
gatherers so you can imagine that
dilemma if some somebody would have
called Gordon Willey at Harvard and say
there’s some student named Anson who
says that there were huge pre-classic
cities within seventy-two meter high
pyramids he just said that guy’s fault
that crap hung up so it took me 20 years
to convince my colleagues if this was
real the data was real that there were
massive pre-classic cities centuries
before the time of Christ a thousand
years earlier than this stuff and these
guys were sophisticated they were
complex and they told the story of
humanity that we’ve never seen before
the saga is there’s a there’s the
origins of complexity the dynamics of
complexity and the collapse of
complexity and that’s the whole whole
gamut we we know we can’t see our
origins we can only live in the present
we can’t see our future but in for the
lens of archaeology you can see the
whole gamut you can see the beginnings
the things they did that or originated
their social so the economic and
political sophistication you can see the
dynamics of their society maintain that
and you can see what took them to hell
and when you look at all those factors
you say oh my gosh that’s humanity and
then you start looking along our own
government you say mm-hmm we’re doing
some things right and we’re doing some
things very very very wrong because we
can see that to that lens through that
window of archaeology that we don’t have
any other means to detect that
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