Comments on: Virgin of the Sea https://www.saltshaker.net/20180303/virgin-of-the-sea Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Peru Comes to Recoleta – SaltShaker https://www.saltshaker.net/20180303/virgin-of-the-sea#comment-269071 Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:01:35 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=24471#comment-269071 […] on Peruvian menus here, so we had to go for one when we saw this. Much more refined than the usual version I’ve seen in Lima, and it could have used a bit more filling in relation to potato, but absolutely […]

]]> By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20180303/virgin-of-the-sea#comment-260048 Sat, 03 Mar 2018 22:10:31 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=24471#comment-260048 In reply to Oscar.

Does that mean we can consider all lawyers and legislators to be pre-historic?

I guess it’s the difference between social science definition and common usage of a term, at least in English, I don’t know if the same difference exists in Spanish.

]]> By: Oscar https://www.saltshaker.net/20180303/virgin-of-the-sea#comment-260046 Sat, 03 Mar 2018 19:58:30 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=24471#comment-260046 A small clarification. The difference between “history” and “pre-history” is the existence of an understandable written language in a certain civilization, and so the use of “pre-history” at the museum is not pejorative at all. In fact, something that is currently pre-historic may become historic just by philologists being able to decode a written language.

The incas used khipus for recording numerical and accounting information, and there are several hypothesis stating that they also encoded other non-numerical info, but none of them has yet been proved (afaik).

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