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<p>[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 3586317, member: 51347"]Sadly, the Incas had sophisticated writings, including poems, stories, records, etc. via a method of archiving information called Quipus. Their writing was by very sophisticated means of knotting ropes. The Spaniards during their conquering of the Incan Empire BURNED most of them, thereby destroying an ENORMOUS amount of Incan History. Crimes against humanity...</p><p><br /></p><p>If anything, this means of archiving human history is incredibly creative and took sophisticated minds to create and use them. Because it was not the Eurasian method of 2-dimensional ink or carving on a surface, it was not recognized as communication. I find it much more sophisticated, as well as fascinating means of archiving and communicating knowledge as <b><i>it is 3-DIMENSIONAL thinking.</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">Quipu</span></b></p><p> [ATTACH=full]957667[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ancient.eu/Quipu/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ancient.eu/Quipu/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ancient.eu/Quipu/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 3586317, member: 51347"]Sadly, the Incas had sophisticated writings, including poems, stories, records, etc. via a method of archiving information called Quipus. Their writing was by very sophisticated means of knotting ropes. The Spaniards during their conquering of the Incan Empire BURNED most of them, thereby destroying an ENORMOUS amount of Incan History. Crimes against humanity... If anything, this means of archiving human history is incredibly creative and took sophisticated minds to create and use them. Because it was not the Eurasian method of 2-dimensional ink or carving on a surface, it was not recognized as communication. I find it much more sophisticated, as well as fascinating means of archiving and communicating knowledge as [B][I]it is 3-DIMENSIONAL thinking.[/I][/B] [B][COLOR=#b30000]Quipu[/COLOR][/B] [ATTACH=full]957667[/ATTACH] [URL]https://www.ancient.eu/Quipu/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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