quipu การใช้

• That's where Inca quipus, or knotted strings, come in.
• The Spanish authorities quickly suppressed the use of quipus.
• Many conquistadors considered quipus to be idolatrous and therefore destroyed many of them.
• Eielson's quipus were exhibited in the 1964 Venice Biennale to wide acclaim.
• Still, the quipus remain a mystery.
• This suggests that quipus are not a glottographic writing system and have no phonetic referent.
• Quipus are also closely monitored for mold, as well as insects and their larvae.
• Even when people have tried to preserve quipus, corrective care may still be required.
• The Inca used quipu or bunches of knotted strings, for accounting and census purposes.
• According to Guaman Poma, quipucamayocs could " read " the quipus with their eyes closed.
• Quipu cords can be " mechanically cleaned with brushes, small tools and light vacuuming ".
• But a growing number of experts believe that quipus may hold the secrets of the Inca Empire.
• However Gary Urton has suggested that the quipus used a binary system which could record logographic data.
• Since so many quipus were burned by the Spanish, very few remained for Cumis to analyze.
• The Anthropology / Archaeology department at the University of California at Santa Barbara also holds one quipu.
• When quipus are on display, their exposure to ambient conditions is usually minimized and closely monitored.
• Even though some quipus have hundreds of cords, each cord should be assessed and treated individually.
• The Incan Empire ran a large command economy using quipu, tallies made by knotting colored fibers.
• However, the exact use of quipu in this and later Andean cultures has been widely debated.
• Spanish chroniclers also concluded that quipus were used primarily as mnemonic devices to communicate and record numerical information.