Daniele Neander ManciniMar 2
LEGGENDO GLI ARCHIVI DI CORDA "KHIPUS" DELL'IMPERO INCA https://www.danielemancini-archeologia.it/leggendo-gli-archivi-di-corda-khipus-dellimpero-inca/ #GaryUrton, #HarvardUniversity, #Inkawasi, #Khipus @cultura
LEGGENDO GLI ARCHIVI DI CORDA "KHIPUS" DELL'IMPERO INCA - Daniele Mancini Archeologia

Gli archeologi della Harvard University  hanno scavato un magazzino Inca nel sito di Inkawasi, Perù, hanno portato alla luce 34 khipus...

Daniele Mancini Archeologia
@haitchfiveSep 16, 2025

Of course anthropologists wouldn't know, and they don't have to know, it's not their métier... but twist that 90 degrees and it's a directed acyclic graph.

#permacomputing #retrocomputing #khipus

@haitchfiveSep 16, 2025

By the way, Khipus are fascinating. If you're so inclined, these New Scientist articles are excellent. Not sure much progress has been done since then, but I will dig deeper.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931972-600-we-thought-the-incas-couldnt-write-these-knots-change-everything/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18725135-000-inca-bean-counters-used-string-theory/

#permacomputing #retrocomputing #khipus

@haitchfiveSep 16, 2025

Big idea: a Harlequin or RC2014-based Khipu-weaving symbolic persistence device.

Wouldn't it be nice if such theoretical device were possible? And it would reunite electronic and electro-mechanical computers with some of their tangential ancestry of the Jacquard loom in some ways.

#permacomputing #retrocomputing #khipu #khipus

Adv in Archaeological PracticeSep 7, 2025
In her FirstView piece, Karen Thompson introduces an object-literature framework that connects #objects to the #literature that references them. Applying her framework to #khipus, she demonstrates how it can aid researchers & facilitate the production of new knowledge.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-archaeological-practice/article/connecting-objects-and-literature-a-case-study-with-khipus-the-khipubiblio-crossreference/2736F37CFEC0FD9A041B6B92B8D5BEA5
Connecting Objects and Literature: A Case Study with Khipus, the “Khipu-Biblio Cross-Reference” | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core

Connecting Objects and Literature: A Case Study with Khipus, the “Khipu-Biblio Cross-Reference”

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