[Aztlan] Classic Maya Unit of Length

[Bob Patten]

My claim has not been published, but it is easily testable. I previously 
posted an image http://www.stonedagger.com/PovertyPoint.html of a chert 
eccentric that obviously contains redundant indications of the number seven. 
I had neglected to observe that summing the distance represented by seven 
rays produces a value of 700 Maya units. Summing the sides of the bounding 
rectangle produces seven cubed--a doubly neat coincidence. All the formal 
symmetrical chert eccentrics that I have measured produce rectangular 
perimeters with even multiples of Maya numbers after dividing millimeters by 
1.144. So far, measurements have remained accurate to three parts in a 
hundred. As the above example illustrates, the Maya convention of geometry 
is different enough from what we are used to that we often fail to examine 
the correct distances. My evidence covers thousands of years and more than a 
thousand miles, so a complete explanation will have to await publication.

Bob Patten
http://www.stonedagger.com