Signs of the Inka Khipu : binary coding in the Andean knotted-string records /
In an age when computers process immense amounts of information by the manipulation of sequences of 1s and 0s, it remains a frustrating mystery how prehistoric Inka recordkeepers encoded a tremendous variety and quantity of data using only knotted and dyed strings. Yet the comparison between compute...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2003.
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| Edition: | Uncorrected, advance page proofs. |
| Series: | Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and acknowledgments
- 1. Memory, writing, and record keeping in the Inka Empire
- 2. Theory and methods in the study of Khipu binary coding
- 3. The physical components of Khipu binary coding
- 4. The linguistic components of Khipu binary coding
- 5. Khipu sign capacity and code conversion
- 6. Sign theory, markedness, and parallelism in the Khipu information system
- 7. Conclusions
- Appendix. Tabular description of Khipu UR19 from Chachapoyas
- Notes
- Bibliography.