Perhaps the Inca had found a viable alternative to written language just before their Empire collapsed. Using a wide variety of colours, strings, and sometimes several hundred knots tied in various ways at various heights, khipu could record dates, statistics, accounts, and even represent, in abstract form, key episodes from traditional folk stories and poetry. In recent years scholars have also challenged the view that khipu were merely a memory aid device, and suggest that khipu may have been progressing towards narrative records. ancient.eu/Khipu/
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 12:05:01 +0000
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