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| October 16, 2006 02:15PM |
I pulled out my copy of The Cord Keepers as I knew it had more information on the khipu mentioned in Splitstoser's paper and found this... I knew I had read this somewhere.
I could have sworn I'd read something about a central-European find.. I'll keep looking.
Kat
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A khipu (or chinu in Aymara) is an Andean information storage device made of cord. The concept is not uniquely Andean, and indeed devices fitting this minimal definition are attested in many cultures. Herodotus mentions one in use during the Persian wars. Other cases from peoples as far afield as New Mexico Pueblos, the Ryukyu Islands, and Hawaii. In the Hebrew Bible, Numbers 15:37-38 prescribes knotted “fringes” (tsitsit) as a vector of memory. Diffusionists have suggested that this far-flung distribution reflects an ancient dispersion of an eminently portable medium. There is no archaeological trail, though, and one could just as well posit independent inventions.”
The Cord Keepers by Frank Salomon 2004
Page 11
I could have sworn I'd read something about a central-European find.. I'll keep looking.
Kat
Ma'at Moderator
Founder and Director of The Hall of Ma'at
Contributing author to Archaeological Fantasies:
How pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past and misleads the public
"If you panic, you're lost" -- W. T. 'Watertight' Southard
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