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- Mar 2022
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lithub.com lithub.com
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Harvard’s Gary Urton, with his Khipu Database (KDB), seems to have pinpointed the name of a village, Puruchuco, represented by a sequence of three numbers, like a kind of zip code. We can’t rule out the possibility that this is a richly phonetic system, but we’re still a long way from proving it.
Quipu may potentially be a phonetic system, but the state of the art of research indicates we're far from a proof. Several digital catalogues have been created including Gary Urton's Khipu Database (KDB).
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- Aug 2021
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www.atlasobscura.com www.atlasobscura.com
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/khipus-inca-empire-harvard-university-colonialism
Student shows correlation between string colors and names as well as tie location to social status.
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