The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 18th, 2003
For Incas, knots may have been worth a thousand words By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD New York Times Monday, August 18, 2003 Of all the major Bronze Age civilizations, only the Inca of South America appeared to lack a written language, an exception embarrassing to anthropologists who habitually include writing as a defining attribute of a vibrant, complex culture deserving to be ranked a civilization. The Inca left ample evidence of the other attributes: monumental architecture, technology, urbanization and political and social structures to mobilize people and resources. Mesopotamia, Egypt, China a...
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