Hard to tell. I did not know of this war. Reading about it was an eye-opener abt Peru-Chile relations. And "War in the Pacific."--I had never heard that.
We know little of how people in the New World communicated, nor why, nor about what. The available evidence raises more questions than ite answers. For example, I visited a structure in Northern Mexico that is reported to have been built in abt 11,000 BCE. That makes no sense. There are coastal settlements in South America with evidence that they were built by ocean-going people originating in the South Pacific, contradicting the cross-Bering Straits legend.
In 1991 I interviewed on Majuro the last surviving longboat builder in the Marshall Islands. Held me of traditions that the people of the Marshall Islands used to travel distances of about 800 kilometers over open ocean to visit the Island of the Purple Flowers, today known as Midway. They used all senses to derive information about waves. They are not known to have had a written language in the sense that we think of it.
Fascinating story! I'm glad Chile repatriated many of those books.
This is a horror. Do we know if any of the pre-Colombian documents and codices were lost?
Hard to tell. I did not know of this war. Reading about it was an eye-opener abt Peru-Chile relations. And "War in the Pacific."--I had never heard that.
We know little of how people in the New World communicated, nor why, nor about what. The available evidence raises more questions than ite answers. For example, I visited a structure in Northern Mexico that is reported to have been built in abt 11,000 BCE. That makes no sense. There are coastal settlements in South America with evidence that they were built by ocean-going people originating in the South Pacific, contradicting the cross-Bering Straits legend.
In 1991 I interviewed on Majuro the last surviving longboat builder in the Marshall Islands. Held me of traditions that the people of the Marshall Islands used to travel distances of about 800 kilometers over open ocean to visit the Island of the Purple Flowers, today known as Midway. They used all senses to derive information about waves. They are not known to have had a written language in the sense that we think of it.