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torybrooks

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Written words are, by nature, permanent; spoken words (and oral histories) are, by nature, impermanent.
 
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Some early resistance among Mayanist archaeologists to the idea that the Mayan glyphs represented a real writing system might be explained by a widely-held belief that groups of people without writing are uncivilized in some way.
 
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Answer to Question 1

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