I was asked to write a short essay on this topic for Maya-Portal.net, a great looking site affiliated with Carl Calleman and run by the amazing Birgitte Rasine. Here’s the link:
http://www.maya-portal.net/blog/gary/long_count_relevant
If you click through be sure to surf around the whole site, there’s a lot of interesting material there.
Gary Baddeley, producer of 2012: Science or [...]