High-level communication across the land

SUMMARYHigh-level communication across the land (Nov 6, 2026; user: "they must've had high level communication"). Record: Maya writing, a full script (hieroglyphic, phonetic and logographic), in books and on stone. Bishop Diego de Landa burned Maya books at Maní (July 12, 1562); about four Maya codices survive (Dresden, Madrid, Paris, Grolier/Maya Codex of Mexico). Record: Inka quipu (knotted-cord records) and chaski relay runners on the Qhapaq Ñan (P788). The Third Council of Lima (1583) ordered quipus used for "idolatry" destroyed. Record: Mexica pictorial books and runners. Record: Plains Indian Sign Language (Hand Talk), a shared sign language across dozens of nations; Coronado's men (1541) saw Plains people speaking by signs. Record: wampum belts as treaty records (Haudenosaunee Hiawatha belt; Two Row tradition). Record: the conch (lanbi) as Ayiti's call to rise (the Nèg Mawon statue, 1967, blows it); the Maroon abeng horn of Jamaica, which signals in coded calls. Record: the Ekpe/Abakuá sign script (nsibidi; anaforuana in Cuba). Pattern: writing, cords, signs, belts, horns and runners carried messages across peoples and long distances. The colonizers burned the books and the cords (Maní 1562; Lima 1583). Lens: the cover-up hit the communication systems first

OPENhow far the networks linked (Maya to the islands by sea, P794; Tecumseh's travels, P799).