Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Indigenous accounting and exchange at Monte Sierpe (‘Band of Holes’) in the Pisco Valley, Peru

Dating to at least the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1400) and used by the #Inca (AD 1400–1532), Monte Sierpe shows clear numerical patterns in its hole counts across different sections, and potentially parallels the complex groupings found in local Inca knotted-string #khipu

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Human hair khipus reveal Inca record-keeping was used by both elites and commoners
 
A recently studied 500-year-old Inca khipu (Quipu) has overturned assumptions about who created these intricate thread-based documents

More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/08/huma...

#archaeology #khipu #incaempire

Incan numerical recordkeeping system may have been widely used https://arstechni.ca #Pre-Columbiancivilizations #indigenoussouthamerica #ancientpeopledidstuff #indigenouscommunities #indigenousamericans #anthropology #Archaeology #Incanempire #Science #science #khipu #inca #wari

QUIPU, contando entre nudos

Quipu, contando entre nudos🧮

¿Sabías que en el Imperio Inca se creó un sistema único de registrar cuentas?

Sitio web: www.elotroarchivo.com/2025/07/quip...

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#AbyaYala #BD #Comic #ElOtroArchivo #Historieta #Inca #Khipu #Quipu #SurGlobal #TantosMundos

Jesica Formoso and Patricia Loto together with a poster titled “Considerations on Open Science from Researchers in the Global South: An Analysis Using NLP Tools"

✨ Last week we met in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱 to share the @khipu-ai.bsky.social 2025 🤩.
🙋‍♀️ Thanks to @mcnanton.bsky.social, @patriloto.bsky.social and Jesica Formoso for sharing the #OpenScience experiences of MetaDocencia at the poster presentation of #Khipu, the Latin American meeting on AI.

Meaning of #khipu KHIPU rope or tapes to carry out accounting by knots used by the Incas. .. khipu

Significado de #khipu KHIPU cuerda o cintas para llevar contabilidad mediante nudos utilizado por los incas... khipu

Significado de #khipu Corda khipu ou fitas para realizar a contabilidade por nós usados pelos incas. .. khipu