Keenir
Banned
Not so long ago you would've put Mayan glyphs in the same category.
ah, but Mayan glyph-reading didn't survive European contact...thus making it ineligable for what he suggested:
forcing them into new communities across different peoples.
Thus much of their culture was lost, often before first direct
contact with Europeans.
The art of writing could have served its main purpose here:
To conserve cultural items.
He didn't say it would have served,
he said it could have served.
Implicit in the usage of "could" is the
"with luck"...![]()
ah. those words always cause me trouble.