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  1. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    As is typical of Maya inscriptions, not a single one at Copán mentions a commoner. Working folk had to build all those buildings. Farmers had to feed all those laborers along with the holy lords and nobles. This type of class division usually works when everyone believes they are part of a system, with each person occupying a valued place in society and contributing to the vital ceremonies that maintain the cosmic order.
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  2. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    This inferno of contagion destroyed thousands of societies and millions of people, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, from California to New England, from the Amazon rainforest to the tundra of Hudson Bay. It is what destroyed T1, the City of the Jaguar, and the ancient people of Mosquitia.
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  3. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    The dangers of exploring Mosquitia go beyond the natural deterrents. Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. Eighty percent of the cocaine from South America destined for the United States is shipped through Honduras, most of it via Mosquitia.
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  4. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    The Maya built with stone, while this region had been extensively settled by a separate, sophisticated culture that built great earthen mounds. This was an entirely new culture. Even as Strong's work showed definitively that Mosquitia was not part of the Maya realm, however, his discoveries raised more questions than they answered.
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  5. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    The buckskin shirt launched one of the most voracious collecting careers in American history. Heye became obsessed with all things Native American, and he would eventually amass a collection of a million pieces. In 1916, he established the Museum of the American Indian on upper Broadway in New York City to house his collection. {In 1990, the museum moved to Washington, DC, and became part of the Smithsonian.} Heye
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  6. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    If you have the golden chicken, the archaeologists don't want the chicken to produce any golden eggs, but the tourist guys, they want to cut it open to get all the eggs at once. There should be a balance.
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  7. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    on for the rest of my life." That evening, Virgilio joined us at dinner. I asked him about the clear-cutting that checkerboarded the jungle we had flown over. He was shocked and concerned by what he'd seen. He said we had found the site in the nick of time, before deforestation and
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  8. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    The Lost City of the Monkey God is a throwback to the golden age of adventure archaeology, the thrilling true story of a group of explorers penetrating one of the toughest jungles on earth in search of a lost city…and finding it. Preston is a terrific writer of both non-fiction books and bestselling novels and makes you feel the dark heart of this lost Honduran wilderness." -John Sandford, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author
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  9. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    We have to wonder why the kings and nobles failed to recognize and solve these seemingly obvious problems undermining their society. Their attention was evidently focused on their short-term concerns of enriching themselves, waging wars, erecting monuments, competing with each other, and extracting enough food from the peasants to support all those activities." {If this sounds familiar, I would note that archaeology is thick with cautionary tales that speak directly to the twenty-first century.}
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  10. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    Leishmaniasis has a long and terrible history with human beings, stretching back as far as human records exist and causing suffering and death for thousands of years.
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  11. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    parasitology is one of the lower-paying of all the medical specialties. To go into the field, you have to truly care about helping people.
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  12. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    He also said you never really knew what kind of side effects might pop up until at least ten thousand people had taken a drug,
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