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• They did not have a written language; instead they used a cord with beads on it, called "quipu", used to record government business. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• The quipus of the ancient Incas of Peru encoded a wide range of data about people, land, and crops for the government bureaucracy.
• We now know the quipu for just what it was in prehistoric times… simply an instrument for recording numbers.
• Have rural information systems - the Incan quipu, the Australian songline - had the same status as urban ones? Information, Culture, Policy, Education: History of information
• The Inca, who had no written language, used the quipu - a device made of a series of strings with colored knots - to record census findings and tallies of animal herds and other resources.
• The Incas of Peru, before the Conquest, had a whole system of “writing” based on a variation of knots in colored strings, the “khipu” or “quipu.” Texture : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• Remember that the Incas had no written records and so the quipu played a major role in the administration of the Inca empire since it allowed numerical information to be kept.
• So far as known, the quipu was the only mnemonic system in use in Peru. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
• I wonder whether there might be lessons in the Incan calendar and quipus.
• The Inca, who had no written language, used the quipu - a device made of a series of strings with colored knots - to record census findings and tallies of animal herds and other resources.