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Transcription: [01:15:46]
The attitudes of many archeologists against what's called diffusionism, their reluctance to accept it because often it's not, in cases of diffusion, aren't provable.

[01:16:03]
This is due to the, as I think we might have mentioned, due to the very vague nature of what we can learn through archeology.

[01:16:22]
We get to perhaps, in a view of ancient cultures through archeology, which might be compared to an extraordinarily cracked and faded mirror, we can just barely get a few glimpses here and there of ancient times that is without historical accounts.

[01:16:51]
And it's very easy to - it's perhaps easier to ascribe developments through independent inventions through evolution, than it is through diffusion, because the significant elements that one might need to prove diffusion are very often absent.

[01:17:23]
Recently, we discussed this question of archeological record, as regards just Mesoamerica, what Mesoamerican and the Andes - the Andean cultures.

[01:17:44]
There's been a tendency in Mesoamerica to think not of the area as a whole - although that's - in the process of cultural history, although that's becoming more and more uh -