Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the central Andes Mountains of South...

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...

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...

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...

unifying theme across her diverse body of work, among which her fibre art quipus, knotted or unknotted strings, palabrarmas and precarios, made from natural...

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...

all corners of the empire, finely-woven textiles, use of knotted strings (quipu) for record keeping and communication, agricultural innovations and production...

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...

used. Note the use of zero at the beginning and end of the two cycles. The quipu of the Incas was a system of colored knotted cords used to record numerical...

appears anomalous, Mann notes that the presence of textiles is intriguing. Quipu (or khipu), string-based recording devices, have been found at Caral, suggesting...