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Transcription: [01:22:37]
{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
And, uh, I think we have a, uh, isolationist approach has, uh, has given us the idea that strangers probably would not be accepted in other areas in this way.

[01:22:51]
In my opinion they would be accepted because the people in the, in the, uh, in the culture being visited are just as interested in outside things as the visitors.

[01:23:02]
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[01:23:06]
So I see a great, a great interchange going on all the time even though many of these, many of the, uh, there are many strange lacks of diffusion of important elements.

[01:23:23]
For instance, uh, uh, the [[stela?]] cult of the Maya,

[01:23:28]
uh, the elaborate, uhm, inscriptions on monuments, uh, detailing astronomical and perhaps historical events, never took over in central Mexico despite the, uh, despite this supposed, uhm,
great knowledge of, uh, of, uh, each other.

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[01:24:01]
One of the interesting, uh, uh, perhaps one of the indications, of, uh, how close the contact was and how little it seemed to show up archaeologically is the relative, uh, absence of trade items in Mesoamerica despite the, uh,
the kind of trade that is indicated in the Aztec tribute records.

[01:24:36]
We know that the Aztec gathered tribute yearly or, two, or one or two, uh, two or four times a year in many parts in Mesoamerica.

[01:24:50]
They brought in all kinds of things in great, great quantities and these are detailed in the, in the [[Matrícula de los Tributos?]] of the [[Aztec's Mendoza?]] Codex.