| In the ninth century the Mayans placed decorative inlays in anterior teeth. |
| While exploring the Lacandon jungle in 1948 he discovered the last remnants of the Lacandon people, descendants of the original Mayans. |
| We think the writing was developed by the Olmecs and then adopted later by the Mayans. |
| Secondly, at the time of the Mayans there was no extensive agriculture in Venezuela. |
| More than 2,000 years ago the Mayans used plumb bobs and chalk lines in building carved columns so finely that a row of hundreds of these would disappear behind the first one. |
| Before then, the Mayans, who lived in present-day Guatemala, Honduras and southern Mexico, recorded hurricanes in their hieroglyphics. |
