The Kinchiltun Project is an art project

A kinchiltun is a concept from the Mayan people of Meso-America whose civilisation lasted from 100 CE to 900 CE. Their calendar mirrored the modern calendar and ran in cycles according to the cycles of the sun and crops. They also had longer cycles running into hundreds of years and ultimately a kinchiltun which represented 1,300,000 years. This may have meant they were conscious of the eternal during their own time but their abandoned cities and treasures reflect the transience and impermanence of their civilisation which reflects on our own 21st century global civilisation will too also ultimately come to an end. What will be left of ourselves for future species to understand and appreciate our creativity and achievements ?

Make something that:

Represents our civilisations and communicates to someone beyond it how we lived

Could be reproduced and stored for one million plus years to last beyond our current civilisation

Questions that are still to be answered:

Where is the best location to store artifacts that will last 1+ millions years give geological movement ?

What is the best medium for creating something that will last: stone, ceramics, plastics ?

What is the best way to represent absolute time in visual form ?

Send ideas or answers to project@kinchiltun.org