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Quipu (also
spelled khipu) are
recording devices fashioned from
strings historically used by a
number of
cultures in the
region of
Andean South America...
- accounting-related tasks.
These officials were
called quipo camayos.
Study of
khipu sample VA 42527 (Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin)
revealed that the numbers...
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phonemes can be
considered a data
system as can the
Incan artefact of the
khipu and an
image stored as pixels. A data
system is
defined in
terms of some...
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khipus and
hybrid khipu-alphabetic
texts in the
Central Andes and is
credited with the
first potential phonetic decipherment of an
element of a
khipu...
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examples listed above: Inka,
Wayna Qhapaq, Qollasuyu, Mama Oqllo, Wiraqocha,
khipu, tampu, ****ur. This
orthography has the
following features: It uses w instead...
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messenger sticks (used by, e.g.,
Inuit tribes), the
knotted cords,
khipus or quipus, as used by the Inca.
Herodotus (c. 485–425 BC)
reported the use...
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other enameled surfaces. The
Incas used
knotted cords known as
quipu (or
khipu) for
keeping records.
Countless writing tools and
surfaces have been improvised...
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Urton is a
specialist in
Andean archaeology,
particularly the
quipu (
khipu) rope-based
recording system used in the Inca
empire in the 15th and 16th...
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Train 2017 2 The Clue in the
Papyrus Scroll 2017 3 The
Detour of the
Elephants 2017 4 The
Shackleton Sabotage 2017 5 The
Khipu and the
Final Key 2017...
- tenets, statistics, math, science, "Runa-Simi"
language variety of Cuzco,
Khipu interpretation, art,
music construction, history, agronomy, architecture...
