Here's one more reason to be glad those 2012 Maya doomsday worries didn't pan out - Maya scholarship, thankfully, just kept on going.
An international archaeology team, for example, reports that a well-known Maya ruin site had its origins further back in time than anyone first supposed. Nestled in the hilly interior of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the ruin of Kiuic turns out to boast a pyramid of surprising antiquity, dating back to 700 B.C., as shown by carbon dating. Long seen as a transitional corridor between the ancient Maya cities of Central America and the later ones of the Yucatan coast, the hilly "Puuc" region that is home to Kiuic and other sites, instead, looks like a longtime home of the vanished culture.
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The three feet of the platter depicted the Maya "fat god," a patron of feasting, appropriately enough ... how good is that!