Posted on 07/20/2005 6:29:53 PM PDT by blam
My computer was down for a couple days. Burned out ports.
Henchbrother Ping for the sis.
Looks like something of interest for you.
Welcome to FR.
A little testy there?
And, maybe they made records of all their advances. Not everybody was like the Phoenician and other inhabitants of the Levant.
You have a woeful ignorance of history - they didn't do anything a hundred other societies didn't do first.
Another freeper baby with a case of projectile vomitus. I think it was something he ate.
Sounds like they'd be right at home in this post Roe v Wade US of A.
Somehow, I doubt that this "language" has been lost, but it may well be hidden.
I visited Peru a few years back. Lots of fascinating experiences, but one in particular. Up on the altiplano, we were walking past this tower. Stone, round, tapered towards the top, and with windows only at the very top.
I looked around. There were two more towers visible; the three formed a straight line. After walking around this funny structure, I realised what it was. Spoke to the (native) guide:
"This is a heliograph tower"
He smiled and nodded.
"But the Inca are supposed to have no writing. How could they use a heliograph?"
He smiled again, but his smile was that of a man with a secret.
The picture shows a Linux quipu. There are also Windows quipus and (not very many) beautifully tied and died Mac quipus.
An absurd statement, considering that other than a counting system, no abstract ideas or administrative or religious thoughts or events have ever been deciphered. None.
Zero.
So, this overreaching PC statement is based exactly on what?
Well, of course. They had to keep the books on the marching-powder trade.
Bookkeeping records, accounts. The first thing a city does is warehousing.
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True, but if you were a stranger in the ancient world, which society do you think you would have a better chance of surviving - and even thriving in: Quechuan/Aymyran (Inca), Tenochitlan (Aztec) or Roman?
"Man Who Advanced Bird-Dinosaur Link Dies"
Pointus Bonum.
We don't know whether the quipus contain language at all. They may just contain numbers, for example, or functioned as a complicated sort of rosary.
I doubt they will ever be deciphered. Only a handful of them exist, and there's nothing to relate any of them to whatever they might have represented.
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