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Posted on 08/28/2025 6:21:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Science reports that recent analysis of an Inca recordkeeping device in the collection of the University of St. Andrews is upending what archaeologists previously thought about the pre-Columbian South American civilization. Hundreds of years ago, the Incas developed a unique system, using knotted cords known as khipus to record information such as dates, numbers, and transactions. These were typically made from long strands of llama or alpaca hair. It had been thought that the job of creating and maintaining these complicated tools was held by highly educated and elite administrative men who were among Inca society's upper echelon. A new study of the St. Andrews khipu, which was made somewhere in the Andes region around 1498, surprisingly indicated that it was woven from the hair of a woman, who researchers believe made the object herself. Additionally, using isotopic analysis of a hair sample, the team was able to extract information about the woman's diet. She ate very little meat or maize, foods usually eaten by the Inca upper classes. Instead she consumed tubers, quinoa, and leafy greens, the usual fare of common people. This new research seems to suggest that numerical literacy and khipu production was more widespread in Inca society than originally believed. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Science Advances. For more on khipus, go to "Reading an Inca Archive."
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Primary cord and pendants of khipu KH0631, University of St. AndrewsSabine Hyland
It looks like a necklace.
Need more coffee…
Well, bald chicks are hot. Oh, sorry...
“This new research seems to suggest that numerical literacy and khipu production was more widespread in Inca society than originally believed.”
That is because they did not suffer the tender embrace of John Dewey.
A jug of wine........................
” surprisingly indicated that it was woven from the hair of a woman, who researchers believe made the object herself.”
Based on what? What factual evidence leads to that belief?
Or - when the upper class record keepers saw a commoner with good hair -
they cut it off of her and used it
It isn’t a belief in the first place. Surviving early writers about the practice noted that men and women were employed making khipu. The linked study notes that khipu are sometimes found among grave goods, and one grave previously thought to be a male burial turned out to be a female burial. Human hair was used as a sort of signature in khipu, not apparently as the primary source of the medium. The one under study was entirely human hair rather than the usual llama or alpaca material.
The four (khipu,khipus,quipu,quipus) keywords, sorted, duplicates out:
Guessing they counted time much like an abacus. But how?
It was for recording numbers, probably an accounting system or something like it, no doubt related to taxation. See post 11 for some links from the FRchives.
So no need for the vag since it appears all we need is the hair to determine sex.
Bingo! I wouldn’t expect elite women to give up their tresses because Big Papi needed to record a transaction.!
I hate headlines with the word may...
No one asked ya.
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