Unit 3: Week 5: Into the Past

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  1. archaeologist
    an anthropologist who studies prehistoric culture
    Both the archaeologist and the historian have tried to figure out how the quipu works.
  2. era
    a period marked by distinctive character
    In its peak era—the middle of the 1400s—the Incas built thousands of miles of roads over mountains, and yet they had no knowledge of the wheel.
  3. fragment
    a piece broken off or cut off of something else
    It was found in a box holding fragments of a quipu.
  4. historian
    a person who is an authority on the past and who studies it
    Both the archaeologist and the historian have tried to figure out how the quipu works.
  5. intact
    undamaged in any way
    Most quipus were not preserved, but about 600 of them still remain intact.
  6. manuscript
    handwritten book or document
    More conclusive proof that the quipu is a language comes from an old manuscript, a series of handwritten pages from the 17th century.
  7. preserve
    keep in safety and protect from harm, loss, or destruction
    Most quipus were not preserved, but about 600 of them still remain intact.
  8. reconstruct
    reassemble mentally
    They hope to reconstruct the quipu code based on this and other repeating patterns of knots.
  9. remnant
    a small part remaining after the main part no longer exists
    Only a few hundred of these remnants of the Inca culture still exist.
  10. statistic
    a datum that can be represented numerically
    The quipus were likely used by Inca officials to record and keep track of data, including statistics on anything from the number of crops produced by a village to the number of people living in a house.
Created on Tue Jul 07 15:34:38 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Jul 09 14:20:55 EDT 2020)

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