I think there is still much to be learned, especially about pre-contact North-South trade routes and, hence, cultural diffusion. I have a recent interest in, for example, the use/role of lienzos (see www.lienzo.ufm.edu) during that period. And there are relatively new discoveries at places likeEl Mirador<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mirador>in Guatemala.
REC: Plz tell us more about how/why "The astronomy was impossible"? -tj On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I guess people back then were not that >> different from today, some just wanted >> to be peaceful farmers, while others >> insisted on repulsive rituals, bloody >> sacrifices and endless wars. The film >> Apocaylpto from Mel Gibson describes >> it well, I think it is quite authentic. >> >> The astronomy was impossible and the arrival of the Europeans was only off > by several centuries, but no reason why the depiction of everyday life > shouldn't be taken as authentic, for some value of authentic. ;-) > > There's an open-access PNAS article today about pre-Columbian agriculture > in the Amazon and how their engineering has fared in the centuries since > their extermination, > http://www.pnas.org/content/107/17/7823.short<http://www.pnas.org/content/107/17/7823.short?rss=1> > . > > -- rec -- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] "Be Your Own Publisher" http://indiepubwest.com ==========================================
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