Poster presenting article title (Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru) and journal name (antiquity). Follow open-access link for list of authors

Often labelled an "unexplained mystery", new research by Bongers et al. in @antiquity.ac.uk integrates drone imagery and microbotanical analysis to propose a function rooted in Indigenous practices: accounting and exchange. #BandOfHoles #Peru #Archaeology

Florida professor may have solved mystery of Peru’s Band of Holes Charles Stanish surmised indentations were rudimentary market place and later adapted as accounting and storage system

I would like to announce that #BandOfHoles will be the name of my new Existential Trance-Fusion Band that I will never get around to forming!

Peru's 5,200 mystery holes solved: ancient marketplace turned Inca accounting system.

Drone mapping reveals patterns matching khipu tribute devices.

#BandOfHoles #MonteSierpe #Peru #IncaEmpire #ChinchaKingdom #PiscoValley #KhipuSystem #TheLolgic #SouthAmerica

A centuries-old grid of holes in the Andes may have been a ‘spreadsheet’ for accounting and exchange An ancient band of thousands of precisely aligned small pits stretching 1.5 kilometres across the Pisco Valley in Peru has baffled experts for almost a century.

Fascinating to read about drone-mapping and the #BandofHoles accounting and trading system in ancient Peru. I just watched a segment on ABC News Breakfast too. @jbongers.bsky.social theconversation.com/a-centuries-...