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To: blam
even keeping inventories by a prewriting system of knots.

Some researchers believe this was true writing of a unique type we just haven't deciphered yet.

4 posted on 05/08/2007 8:09:49 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: Sherman Logan
"Some researchers believe this was true writing of a unique type we just haven't deciphered yet."

Inca Khipu: An Inca khipu, top, and a khipu at the American Museum of Natural History. The only possible Incan example of encoding and recording information could have been cryptic knotted strings, which are unlike anything that sailors or Eagle Scouts tie. "

String, And Knot, Theory Of Inca Writing

5 posted on 05/08/2007 8:20:58 PM PDT by blam
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586 On A Quipu

6 posted on 05/08/2007 8:22:55 PM PDT by blam
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