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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

decipherments apparently show that linguistic usage of Quipus followed a logosyllabic pattern. Quipu Olmec Hieroglyphs, c. 1000 BC – 400 BC, possibly the...

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...

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...

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...

and write in Castilian, but his work was written in Quechua. The use of Quipu was banned by the Spanish, and in order to preserve their work, many Inca...

History Ancient Babylonian Post-classical Cistercian Mayan Muisca Pentadic Quipu Rumi Contemporary Cherokee Kaktovik (Iñupiaq) By radix/base Common radices/bases...

the orbit of Venus. The Incan Empire ran a large command economy using quipu, tallies made by knotting colored fibers. Knowledge of the encodings of...

international common standards Paleolithic tally sticks Prehistoric numerals Quipu Roman numerals Tally stick Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tally...

History Ancient Babylonian Post-classical Cistercian Mayan Muisca Pentadic Quipu Rumi Contemporary Cherokee Kaktovik (Iñupiaq) By radix/base Common radices/bases...

Languages Muysc Cubun Quechua Writing Script Script (Numerals) Numerals Quipu Religion Religion (Human Sacrifice) Religion (Human Sacrifice) Religion...

assumed not to have influenced Old World numeral systems.[citation needed] Quipu, a knotted cord device, used in the Inca Empire and its predecessor societies...

are actually writing. The Vinča symbols appear to be proto-writing, and quipu may have recorded only numerical information. There are doubts that the...

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

History Ancient Babylonian Post-classical Cistercian Mayan Muisca Pentadic Quipu Rumi Contemporary Cherokee Kaktovik (Iñupiaq) By radix/base Common radices/bases...

History Ancient Babylonian Post-classical Cistercian Mayan Muisca Pentadic Quipu Rumi Contemporary Cherokee Kaktovik (Iñupiaq) By radix/base Common radices/bases...

Reminiscences of this ancient story are present in Inca legends written on golden quipu, which only Zia can read. This triggers an obsessive quest for the Cities...

History Ancient Babylonian Post-classical Cistercian Mayan Muisca Pentadic Quipu Rumi Contemporary Cherokee Kaktovik (Iñupiaq) By radix/base Common radices/bases...

Languages Muysc Cubun Quechua Writing Script Script (Numerals) Numerals Quipu Religion Religion (Human Sacrifice) Religion (Human Sacrifice) Religion...

Serafim Todorov. In 2018, he created the film elements for Disappeared Quipu which appeared at the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and...

Message stick Megalithic graffiti symbols Petroglyph Prehistoric counting Quipu Visual language Bacon, Bennett; Khatiri, Azadeh; Palmer, James; Freeth,...

History Ancient Babylonian Post-classical Cistercian Mayan Muisca Pentadic Quipu Rumi Contemporary Cherokee Kaktovik (Iñupiaq) By radix/base Common radices/bases...

Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 1998. ISBN 9781556590887. Quipu. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 2005. ISBN 9781556592263...