Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America...
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ISO Development Environment (redirect from Quipu Directory)
had a full X.500 and LDAP directory called QUIPU (incorrectly pronounced kwip-ooo by the project). Quipu implemented a DSA and a Directory User Agent...
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Code of the Quipu is a book on the Inca system of recording numbers and other information by means of a quipu, a system of knotted strings. It was written...
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the documentation of the quipu. There are 1,500 strings on the largest quipu. The Sacred City of Caral Supe has the oldest quipu, which dates from about...
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textile piece that the excavators have labelled a quipu. They write that the artifact is evidence that the quipu record keeping system, a method involving knots...
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Cecilia Vicuña (section Quipus)
unifying theme across her diverse body of work, among which her fibre art quipus, knotted or unknotted strings, palabrarmas and precarios, made from natural...
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Instead, their societies used the quipu, a system of knotted and colored strings, to convey information. Few quipus survive and they have never been fully...
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all corners of the empire, finely-woven textiles, use of knotted strings (quipu) for record keeping and communication, agricultural innovations and production...
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Mathematics of the Incas (section Quipus)
can be mainly characterized by its usefulness in the economic field. The quipus and yupanas are proof of the importance of arithmetic in Inca state administration...
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decipherments apparently show that linguistic usage of Quipus followed a logosyllabic pattern. Quipu Olmec Hieroglyphs, c. 900 BC - 500 BC, possibly the...
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