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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

Anthropology.net

“The ability to tie them may have been passed between cultures, or more likely through shared ancestry,” — Roope Kaaronen But cultural transmission can’t explain everything. Many knotted artifacts remain tucked away in storage, undocumented and undigitized. Henrich, J. Princeton University Press.