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The Intersection between Art, Non-Linguistic Symbol Systems, and Writing. The Case of the Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inka Iconographies Tomi S. Melka & Robert M. Schoch Download (21.73 MB) Abstract. The present study focuses on iconographic aspects of Wari-Tiwanaku (who occupied portions of modern Perú, Bolivia, and Chile, circa 100 BCE to 1100 CE) artifacts. The hypothesis that the graphic Wari-Tiwanaku elements constituted a cogent semiotic system is explored. Many of the Wari-Tiwanaku elements reminisce (or evoke) the later classic Inka (= Inqa / Inca; circa late 15th to early 16th centuries CE) geometric-like / stylized t‘oqapu patterns which it has been argued formed a visual system based on mnemonic-like principles with possibly emerging logographic elements per various scholars. Selected models, fundamentally from a number of textile and pottery samples of the Wari (+ Wari-Tiwanaku) and Inka cultures, have been retrieved and subjected to iconographical and comparative analyses. The results vouch for the continuity of cultural patterns among these highland pre-European Andean states, separated temporally by hundreds of years, with the Inka having possibly adopted and refashioned an unspecified number of motifs in agreement with their ideological and aesthetic agenda. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36824/2022-graf-melk How to cite How to cite in BIB Tomi S. Melka & Robert M. Schoch (2022), “The Intersection between Art, Non-Linguistic Symbol Systems, and Writing. The Case of the Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inka Iconographies,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2022 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 10, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 501–610. @INPROCEEDINGS{gla10-melk, AUTHOR = {Tomi S. Melka & Robert M. Schoch}, EDITOR = {Haralambous, Yannis}, TITLE = {{The Intersection between Art, Non-Linguistic Symbol Systems, and Writing. The Case of the Wari, Tiwanaku, and Inka Iconographies}}, BOOKTITLE = {{Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2022}}, SERIES = {{Grapholinguistics and Its Applications}}, VOLUME = {10}, PUBLISHER = {Fluxus Editions}, ADDRESS = {Brest}, YEAR = {2022}, PAGES = {501--610}, DOI = {https://doi.org/10.36824/2022-graf-melk}, }