Posted on 06/28/2014 1:47:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An early Computer? :-)
(I bet it gets the InterNET)
While many cultures used “knot” accounting like this, one commonality was that they had no tolerance for anyone messing with the knots. Usually the punishment was death.
Which kind of makes you contemplate the current IRS scandal.
The Incans were amazing stone cutters. Macchu picchu is a bucket-list trip indeed. The Conquistadors and the Spanish administers that followed wiped out the entire Incan Civilization. No written history = gone forever. Bummer.
First iteration of the Affordable Care Act sign up web page??
Somewhere in that stored data is the lost Aztec/Inca/Mayan recipe for Long Pig.
Muslims want to rediscover it.
Maybe the IRS liars are actually Incas...leaving no record behind.
IRS to back up emails with quipus.
“Really, it’s a form of hard copy”, says IRS Head.
The megalithic walls built there have that perfect fit because the workers slid them back and forth against each other. Since the stones were basically of the same hardness, the wore each other smooth, leaving that “no knife blade between them” look. Pretty smart.
Oh....so no mummies, huh? Bummer.
Good grief. Instead of studying these pieces of old string, anthropologists should be studying why the Incas were knotting strings to communicate something, while in Europe, intellectual giants such as Plato and Aristotle had been dead for almost a thousand years.
The Romans had constructed majestic Rome on the way to conquering Europe and vast swaths of Asia and Africa about 1300 years before these knotted strings were made. Why were the indigenous people of the Americas still subsisting in Stone Age cultures, while those in China and Italy were light years ahead of them? Inquiring minds should want to know.
And....In the U.S. continued to do so well into the 1890s. ( My grandmother was born in 1894).
After all if you don't put in on a piece of paper, it isn't writing.
Is it really possible for a handful of Europeans to wipe out a culture? I doubt it. The people themselves were offered a better, more rational, and more humane worldview and embraced it willingly.
I really enjoy the tv shows about ancient cultures. A few are going overboard with the ETs helping them though. I do not know what to think about that especially the one the other night about finding an ancient computer and electricity in the pyramids. I need proof.
Interesting.
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