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I do wonder if the Anasazi didn't have some form of written communication. It hardly makes sense that they could run a large enterprise without writing; and how

I do wonder if the Anasazi didn't have some form of written communication. It hardly makes sense that they could run a large enterprise without writing; and how did they manage to communicate and coordinate everything without it? Just dealing with trade over a long distance alone, would itself seem to indicate that they developed some form of accounting.

Sarki 8y ago
They most likely used quipu for this I think. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
- patrickg_zill 8y ago
  Thanks for that information... Very interesting!
- NelsonMinar 8y ago
  Quipu are from the Andes in South America. It's several thousand miles away. There's no evidence of writing in pre-contact Pueblo cultures. There are some rock pictographs that might have symbolic meanings, that's about as close as it gets. It's a bit of a mystery why Central American writing systems didn't make their way this far north.
RogerL 8y ago
They absolutely didn't. This is well established. What they did have is signal towers. There are towers throughout the 4 corners regions that enabled communication from (for example) SE Utah (Bears Ears) over to CO (mesa Verde), down to AZ or over to NM (Chaco, Salmon, et al). It is of course unknown the extent and nature of the communications. Not all communication were via the towers; sites have been found that are in visible sight lines with towers but are just bare hill tops, bare except the extensive fire damage created by undoubtedly decades of fires lit there.
red-indian 8y ago
My ancestors were not the Anasazi. That's a derogatory term used by the Navajos. Current term is Ancestral Puebloans. Ancestors of the Hopi, the Zuni, the Tiwas, Tewas, Towas, and a few others, all which have preserved our histories. Function of the rooms and site are known, the names of who lived in what apartment is known for many cases, etc. The Chaco complex was multilingual. Some languages were isolates. Yes we had written language both in things written down long term, and in letters and accounts that were sent great distances. The written language, like Chinese, is not phonetic, and can be read by people from the culture across unrelated language families. Believe me, no western scientist, anthropologist or archaeologist is interested in the truth of any of this and we've all stopped offering or even bothering. Pretty much everything in the article above is wrong in some way. Even the thing he describes as a dividing wall is not at all, it's the side of an elevated set of structures. The NPS has models of what it used to look like in the visitor center that show his theory is totally incoherent. There's no way any competent guide would have told him it was a dividing wall. However there are many senile retired archaeologists and anthropologists from the old school of extreme ignorance and supremacy who work there during the summer as volunteer rangers and so he might have been told just about anything.

Sarki 8y ago

They most likely used quipu for this I think. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu

patrickg_zill 8y ago
Thanks for that information... Very interesting!
NelsonMinar 8y ago
Quipu are from the Andes in South America. It's several thousand miles away. There's no evidence of writing in pre-contact Pueblo cultures. There are some rock pictographs that might have symbolic meanings, that's about as close as it gets. It's a bit of a mystery why Central American writing systems didn't make their way this far north.

RogerL 8y ago

They absolutely didn't. This is well established. What they did have is signal towers. There are towers throughout the 4 corners regions that enabled communication from (for example) SE Utah (Bears Ears) over to CO (mesa Verde), down to AZ or over to NM (Chaco, Salmon, et al). It is of course unknown the extent and nature of the communications. Not all communication were via the towers; sites have been found that are in visible sight lines with towers but are just bare hill tops, bare except the extensive fire damage created by undoubtedly decades of fires lit there.

red-indian 8y ago

My ancestors were not the Anasazi. That's a derogatory term used by the Navajos. Current term is Ancestral Puebloans. Ancestors of the Hopi, the Zuni, the Tiwas, Tewas, Towas, and a few others, all which have preserved our histories. Function of the rooms and site are known, the names of who lived in what apartment is known for many cases, etc. The Chaco complex was multilingual. Some languages were isolates. Yes we had written language both in things written down long term, and in letters and accounts that were sent great distances. The written language, like Chinese, is not phonetic, and can be read by people from the culture across unrelated language families. Believe me, no western scientist, anthropologist or archaeologist is interested in the truth of any of this and we've all stopped offering or even bothering. Pretty much everything in the article above is wrong in some way. Even the thing he describes as a dividing wall is not at all, it's the side of an elevated set of structures. The NPS has models of what it used to look like in the visitor center that show his theory is totally incoherent. There's no way any competent guide would have told him it was a dividing wall. However there are many senile retired archaeologists and anthropologists from the old school of extreme ignorance and supremacy who work there during the summer as volunteer rangers and so he might have been told just about anything.