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Transcription: [01:20:12]
- Civilised, and relatively civilised stage of culture.
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And it's characteristic of the more advanced cultures, of what we can call civilisations, to find people interested in other people in other areas.
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This is due partly to the fact that in these more advanced cultures, you have specialised activities.
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Certainly a potter of Central Mexico is interested in new ideas about pottery making, and a religious functionary - a full time religious functionary - let us say in the Maya area, would be very much interested in the activities of full time religious functionaries in Central Mexico.
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So I am, I feel very certain, that there probably was a great deal of contact. That people in Mexico knew what was happening in the Maya area, vice versa.
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Not only in a general way, but probably in detail of what was happening.
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I expect that people of these various - not potters probably - because potters are usually relatively stable, country folk who - who are, make pottery in the ways they always did - they probably wouldn't travel around, they're not, they're probably aren't what we call upper class occupation. Some of the painters undoubtedly were, but pottery not.
[01:22:10]
But religious functionaries, ball game players, musicians, architects, artists - artists and so on, probably on many occasions, actually traveled about Mesoamerica, moved from one centre to another, perhaps to give performances or to learn.