Wow, this is unexpected!
Nice!
Well. He has his PhD thesis material all set.
DRINK YOUR OVALTINE
It’s amazing that the Andeans, as advanced as they were, couldn’t invent paper, ink, pens and writing to capture information. Or at least cuneiform in clay tablets.
Can you imagine how HARD it must have been to record data in KNOTS? That is a weird way to write things down.
Awesome news! This is an historic breakthrough!
Amazing!
Professor Edwin Barnhart in The Great Courses: Lost Worlds of South America (copyright 2012) discuses Khipu(s?) in Lecture 21. He states, “Some scholars believe that they (khipu) are simply accounting devices, while others believe that they constitute a true writing system. It seems unlikely that an empire like that of the Inca could have been managed without some kind of writing system.”
Deciphering such a writing system without a similar Rosetta Stone would be another real challenge.
Hi.
The Khipus are nothing more than accounts receivable and payables between tribes with different currencies.
Sorry, I’ll go sit in the corner now...
5.56mm
I never really cared.
Read the whole article and in just one little paragraph it looks like the cords may represent individuals and their social status. That is an interpretation and decoding? Nice but not much and surely not worth all the discussion.
It looks as though to say diversity is our strength and all that Tommy rot is the theme of this article.
I had hoped to learn something really interesting but was disappointed again.
Decoding Don Knots would be more impressive....IMO