- that the
quipus used a
binary system which could record phonological or
logographic data. His
student Manny Medrano has gone
further to find
quipus that decode...
- similarly-structured data in
modern society and
exercises that ask
students to
construct quipus for
representing modern data. The book is
aimed at a
general audience, and...
- 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...
- 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...
- forebears.
Since the
Incas did not have a
written language, but
instead had
Quipus to record, it is
difficult to
determine the type of
educational system the...
-
installations as
quipus,
referencing the
indigenous writing systems suppressed by
Spanish colonizing forces.
Unlike transportable pre-Columbian
quipus, Vicuña's...
-
spite of the fact that the Inca kept
excellent census records using their quipus,
knowledge of how to read them was lost as
almost all fell into
disuse and...
-
emerged that the
quipu also may have
recorded logographic information in the same way
writing does. Gary
Urton has
suggested that the
quipus used a binary...
- messages, in the form of
quipus (from the
Quechua word
khipu meaning 'knot')
which contained mainly numbers in an
ordered form.
Quipus could represent the...
-
messenger sticks (used by, e.g.,
Inuit tribes), the
knotted cords,
khipus or
quipus, as used by the Inca. Gr****
historian Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) reported...
