Dr. James Fitzsimmons

I want you to spend, you know, weeks sanding this down to make a nice carving.

Just sitting there sanding, right?

And then after you do all of that, you know what I'm going to ask you to do?

you're going to put that in the ground.

You're going to put that in a burial, and no one's ever going to see it, and it's going to be mine.

Ha, ha, ha, right?

Again, it's part of that whole labor thing, like drinking the... It's part of that whole ethos, right?

So for gold, the Aztecs and some of the other folks in Central America, it was okay.

It was like second-tier wealth, you know?

Like gold and silver was kind of second-tier wealth.

I believe the Aztec word for it, I can't remember what the Aztec word for it, but it's something like starship.

It's like, it's basically, it's excrement of stars.

Like, it's nice...

And it's shiny, but it's okay.

For South America, like lower Central America and South America, they have a much richer tradition of metallurgy there, much longer.

You wanna find good metallurgy, that's where the good metallurgy stuff is.

That's where like the really good gold working is, where a lot of that really amazing stuff is.

So are there lost cities of gold?

Probably not, just because looting-wise, people would have gone crazy for that.

That would have been one of the first things to go.