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To: Fred Nerks
"Did you ever come across this?"

Yes. I think we had a thread about it.

"That’s exactly what was found at Caral! Methinks they were quipu - not ‘offerings’ but hidden for safekeeping."

Their books/records?

25 posted on 05/10/2007 5:36:41 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Their books/records?

and their history!

26 posted on 05/10/2007 5:58:18 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: blam

http://agutie.homestead.com/files/Quipu_B.htm

In the absence of written records the quipus served as a means of recording history and passed on to the next generation, which used them as reminders of stories. An thus these primitive computers - quipus - had knotted in their memory banks the information which tied together the Inca empire.


27 posted on 05/10/2007 6:01:21 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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