All about the ancient tribes
A number of Mayan experts have argued that no traditional Mayan narratives foretold approaching disaster, and that the notion that the Long Count calendar will come to an end in 2012 is a misunderstanding of Mayan history and culture.Astronomers dismissed the different end-of-the-world scenarios that were offered as pseudoscience that could be debunked using fundamental astronomical measurements.
This quickly led to the interpretation of the Mayan Long Count calendar as a calendar that predicted the end of the world. [Citation needed] [Citation needed] This particular interpretation of the Mayan calendar was believed by millions of people all around the world, and these individuals came to think that the Mayans had predicted the end of the world.
All of the so-called ″Mayan predictions of 2012″ turned out to be nothing more than wild extrapolations based on researchers’ readings of Mayan hieroglyphs, which were themselves based on interpretations that were still unknown.
Even in more remote locations, there were still between 200 and 400 Maya individuals living every square mile. But all of a sudden there was complete silence. And the profound hush attested to one of the biggest demographic disasters in human past — the extinction of the once-thriving Maya civilisation. This catastrophe was one of the greatest demographic disasters in human antiquity.