Duncan Craig Wrote:
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> > > And that would strengthen the
> > > > case for it being a proto-khipu.
> From
> > its
> > > > provenance in a constructed
> pyramid.,
> > it
> > > could
> > > > well be a line measuring instrument
> as
> > is
> > > still
> > > > used today.
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> > > Once you see the image I think you'll
> change
> > your
> > > mind.
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> > There is a picture in the 2005 article. I
> have the
> > pdf if anyone wants it. it does not look like
> an
> > intrument of measurement
> > Bernard
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> yes, I'd like to see if it had a z weave. But
> doesn't it give you skeptics pause? Bernard,
> wouldn't it set you back a bit if a stelae with
> glyphs on it was found in the Yucatan and dated to
> three thousand years before the oldest known other
> one?
But I would not be arguing that the two were connected to a completely different civilization located thousands of miles away with no evidence of how they were transported across the seas. In this example, they belong to the same culture in the same location and the the only gap is a temporal one. We keep jumping back 500 years in writing (Maya San Bartolo; Olmec Cascajal) not quite thousands of years but the principle stands. There was great shock or theoretical dilemma when Caral's quipu was discovered.
Bernard
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