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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"} are the relative, is the relative lack of interest in technical things. Now, why the American Indians should have had the use of metals for 2,000 years and never go into a real metal age, I think is very significant in this way.
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They seem to have been extraordinarily interested in religious or spiritual matters, but not in technical ones. In looking at the old world we speak of the metal revolution or the revolution that was caused by the introduction of first bronze working and then later iron working, but that didn't happen in the new world.
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They had [[weald??]] animals but they weren't interested in developing, or at least the influence wasn't strong enough from outside, to have caused them to take up these technical things.
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{SPEAKER name="Shirley Gorenstein"}
And there's two things, there's the influence from outside and the ground in which these ideas are being sown.
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{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Yes, that's of course basic but it's very difficult to make any simple rules as to how the reaction will occur. The part of it's dependent on the basic assumptions that a culture has in regard to what's important.