khipu

Back to quipu...an article about the same research in the August 20-26 issue of New Scientist spells it "khipu" for both the plural and singular.

languagehat.com: QUIPU. 2005

A numbering system had been decoded, but now people are working on reading the khipu for far more than numbers.

Best American Science & Nature Writing 2008 julieandrews 2009

What really cool things are we going to learn about the Inca when they finally crack the khipu?

Best American Science & Nature Writing 2008 julieandrews 2009

The Incas of Peru, before the Conquest, had a whole system of “writing” based on a variation of knots in colored strings, the “khipu” or “quipu.”

Texture : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

The first systematic analysis of the grammar of the khipu code did not appear until 2003.

Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Picking up the quipu belatedly 2006

The first systematic analysis of the grammar of the khipu code did not appear until 2003.

Information, Culture, Policy, Education: 2006

Making a khipu gives you a tremendous amount of appreciation for how khipu makers worked with threads.

Conversations: String Theorist 2005

Since 2002, he and his colleague Carrie Brezine, a mathematician, have maintained the Khipu Database Project at Harvard University, which corrals all existing khipu scholarship in one online repository.

Conversations: String Theorist 2005

ARCHAEOLOGY spoke with Gary Urton about mystified Spanish colonials, teaching Harvard students how to make khipu, and bringing tax records to the afterlife.

Conversations: String Theorist 2005

Just throw down their khipu and run out of the room?

Conversations: String Theorist 2005

Drone images showed that the holes were organized in a pattern that resembled a khipu (a knotted-string device that the Inca used for accounting) that was found in the same area.

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