Traces Of A Lost Language And Number System Discovered On The North Coast Of Peru

Traces Of A Lost Language And Number System Discovered On The North Coast Of Peru Jeffrey Quilter, Marc Zender, Karen Spalding, Régulo Franco Jordán, César Gálvez Mora, and Juan Castañeda Murga, 2010   Sometime in the early 17th century, at Magdalena de Cao, a community of resettled native peoples in the Chicama Valley on the North Coast of Peru, a Spaniard used the back of a letter to jot down the terms for numbers in a local language. Four hundred years later, the authors of this article...

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