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Re:A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots by garmaine on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @12:14PM (#15961730)
None so fast. It allows us to corroborate the Spanish records with the actual records kept by the natives. That’s a pretty big deal in terms of finding out what parts of the conquest were fact what were fiction.
Re:A College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots by saalweachter on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:04PM (#15963016)
And to read any pre-Columbian census records which have survived, which is also a Big Deal.