Anthropology professor David Freidel, Ph.D., discusses the popularity surrounding the Mayan calendar and the significance attached to the year 2012. He criticizes the fomentation of apocalyptic beliefs, in films or popular literature, for example, and the "global transformation" that supposedly will occur in 2012. Read the entire article here.
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