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Pixel Quipu (Inca knots)
- jacobolus 11y agoThis is awesome! Much easier to see and compare than looking at pictures of the originals, or reading the raw data files from the Harvard database. The Wikipedia article seems like a pretty good summary of what we know about quipus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu Since the Spanish destroyed so much, a lot of it is fairly speculative.
- viperscape 11y agogosh even they used a base 10 system!
- cellover 11y agoVery nice! Also I just stumbled upon this article about Khipus that have been recently uncovered: http://anthropology.net/2016/01/03/between-the-knots-untying-the-mystery-of-incan-khipus/ http://anthropology.net/2016/01/03/between-the-knots-untying...