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The long-held consensus that the more populated and "civilized" a society, the more complex their communication may be more nuanced than previously thought.
After systematically analyzing written and otherwise recorded evidence of shared information in prehispanic Mesoamerica over 3,000 years, two archaeologists say governance appears to be a more influential factor than society size in determining the complexity of computational communications.
They published their findings on February 10 in a special theme issue of the Journal of Social Computing focused on the collective computational abilities of prehistoric societies.
"Mesoamerica—much of today's Mexico and Central America—is considered one of the few places in the world that saw pristine development of writing systems, without input from other scripts," said paper author David M. Carballo, assistant provost for general education and associate professor of archaeology, anthropology, and Latin American studies at Boston University.
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