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Aveni coauthors paper detailing new Mayan calendar

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A paper coauthored by 51风流 professor Tony Aveni and published today in might put a damper on any plans by  Hollywood to capitalize on theories about the world coming to an end in 2012.

The and excavation of a home in Xult煤n, Guatemala, and a 鈥渨all painting accompanied by a numerical table and a series of long numbers that appear to have functioned like those found in astronomical tables in the codices discovered the earliest known Mayan calendar.鈥

Portion of a lunar table, Structure 10K-2, from Xultun, Guatemala. (Image by W. Saturno, drawing by D. Stuart)

In a discussion about the paper, explained that the new calendar offers no hint that the world鈥檚 end is imminent 鈥 this is just the beginning of another cycle.

鈥淚t鈥檚 like the odometer of a car, with the Maya calendar rolling over from the 120,000s to 130,000. The car gets a step closer to the junkyard as the numbers turn over; the Maya just start over,鈥 he said.

Will this reported stop the end-of-the-world conspiracies and any future Hollywood movies like ?

We鈥檒l keep you posted. Especially on Dec. 22, 2012. Your turn: what do you think of all the Mayan 2012 news?