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

Anthropology.net

Despite differences in time, geography, and material culture, many human groups developed the same set of knots—again and again. “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.