Frisch vom (freien?) Obsidianmarkt

[Blattspitze]

"More than 500 years ago in the midwestern Guatemalan highlands, Maya people bought and sold goods with far less oversight from their rulers than many archeologists previously thought.

That’s according to a new study in Latin American Antiquity that shows the ruling K’iche’ elite took a hands-off approach when it came to managing the procurement and trade of obsidian by people outside their region of central control."
https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2023 ... economics/