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lolthishuman
on April 2, 2021
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The Enigmatic Tablets from Late Bronze Age Deir ‘A...
They can encode numbers and recipes or algorithms. It’s been found that story can be allegorical memory devices which embed deeper knowledge when parsed. So the same thing that sounds like a story can reference math and other practical things.
JPLeRouzic
on April 2, 2021
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An example of memory device is the lukasa which was used in north Congo a few centuries ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukasa_(Luba)
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