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Word: cajamarca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inca tomb near Cajamarca, Peru, Francisco Loaysa, of Lima, found an elaborate " quipu," or knotted and decorated cord 16 yards long, used by the Incas as a calculating device for their decimal arithmetic system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Another Week's Digging | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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