Image via Wikipedia"...a team of researchers from University of Portsmouth and Federal University of Rondonia claim that the Amondawa, a small Amazonian tribe, speak a language with a very uncommon conceptualization of time."http://rosettaproject.org/blog/02011/may/27/telling-time-in-amondawa/
The tribe is claimed to have no words abstracting time into physical phenomenon or time periods, such as "year."
"Rather than having a time-space metaphor, the Amondawa conceptualization of time is based on “social activity, kinship and ecological regularity."
The very idea of a clock is the approximation of time as a mechanically controlled release of kinetic energy. If a culture truly had no concepts relating time to physical experience, could they ever invent a clock?
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