>>142475630cont:
>>142475655see
>>142474855Books/codices were written on either actual tree bark paper called amate (some people argue it's not "true" paper the way chinese paper is, but that seems to be incorrect?) or deerskin
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>>142454529>>142454598>>142468910There's a lot more sources left then people realize, it's just nobody fucking teaches about it so most people aren't aware they exist. Hopefully the Getty Digital Florentine Codex being a thing now makes that used as an educational tool more.
>the Spaniards kept a record of everything they found.This is horseshit, though. Yes, much of what survives, which as I just said there is more of then most people realize, is from records being made under Spanish rule in the early colional period, but that still represents an absolutely tiny fraction of the records that DID exist and were lost. Tenochtitlan and Texcoco both had large royal libraries, most cities/towns and even specific elite families also likely had collections of documents.
Thousands, likely tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of documents would have existed as of Spanish contact, today less then 20 prehispanic ones do and there's maybe 100-200 documents written in the early colonial period which deal with Prehiispanic or contact period history.
it's a wierd situation where people both underestimate how much we have left (because nobody is taught about those documents) but also underestimate how much was lost (because people don't realize how many intellectual traditions and accomplishments Mesoamerica had, that they had actual large libraries, books, etc)
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