Pre-Columbian Writing in South America by Dr Clyde Winters (2012).pdf

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Copyright © 2012 Clyde Winters
Uthman dan Fodio Institute
Chicago, Illinois 60643
Cover Illustration back of Pokotia Statue.
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Table of Contents Page
Chapter 1: Introuction………………………………………..4
Chapter 2: Sumer-Akkad……………………………………19
Chapter 3: The Decipherment Fuente Magna Bowl…………35
Chapter 4: Pokotia Monument……………………………….43
Chapter 5: Ancient Punt and Arwe…………………………..65
Chapter 6: Axumites in India………………………………..75
Chapter 7: KumariNadu…………………………………..…83
Chapter 8: The Axumite Presence in Ancient America……..98
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Chapter 1 :Introduction
Pedro Ciezo de Leon in 1553 wrote that “In
this new world of the Indies, as they knew nothing
of letters, we are in a state of blindness concerning
many things” 1 .
There are many mysteries about ancient Bolivia/Peru. One of these
mysteries is Tihuanaca. Although many people are aware of the ancient
city of Tihuanaca, they don’t know about the many mysterious artifacts
relating to ancient South America found in the museums of many South
American cities.
In 2000, a group of South American archaeologists, belonging to
Unidad de Arqueologia y Antropologia de Bolivia or UNAAR, Bernardo
Biados, Freddy Arce, Javier Escalente, Cesar Calisaya, Leeocadio
Ticlla, Alberto Vasquez, Alvaro Ferholz, Omar Sadud, Paulo Batuani and
Rodrigo Velasco began a search of Bolivian museums which will change
the history of writing in South America. The discoveries by this team
of Bolivian archaeologists was supported by the Honorable H. Enrique
Toro, past President of the Congress of Bolivia. Led by Bernardo
Biados, these archaeologists began to search South American museums to
determine if South Americans had writing prior to Christopher Columbus’
discovery of America.
Alexander von Humboldt, in Vues des cordillieres et monuments des
peuples indigenes de Amerique (1824) wrote that "It has been recently
not in doubt that the Peruvians had besides Quippus , knowledge of a
sign script".
1 Hugh Thompson, The White Rock: an exploration of the Inca heartland (New York: The Overlook Press,
2001), p.xviv.
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Archaeologists have long recognized that the Inca had a system
to record information called quipus. The quipu system was a
communication system that used knots on cords to record Incan official
records.
Quipu Writing
Considerable ink has been used to write about the absence of a
formal writing system among the Inca. The only system of writing
believed to have existed among the Inca was quipu.
Quipu was a system of knots strategically placed on a cord, to
record knowledge. This system of knotted record keeping was originally
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