Word: warka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speculated that these tokens were toys or pieces from a still undiscovered prehistoric game. In 1966 Pierre Amiet, curator of Near Eastern art at the Louvre, suggested that the tokens were an ancient recording system. Schmandt-Besserat agrees. After comparing the tokens with samples of early writing discovered in Warka, a community in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), she concluded that they were part of a sophisticated system of record keeping that eventually evolved into writing. Said she: 'This is not writing at 8000 B.C., but a totally different process of written communication...
...Soviet-built llyushin 62 jetliners on its charter service between U.S. cities and Warsaw. To attract emigres, the state tourist agency, Orbis, is building a new resort-which includes Poland's first postwar golf course-in Warka, birthplace of an American Revolutionary War hero, Casimir Pulaski...
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