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Help me remember pls, which pre-Colombian New World culture
used a complicated system of knotting string for storing certain data?
I can almost remember...
thanks 
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I have always thought it was a very clever way of keeping up with things. 
Secrets Of Quipu – Ancient Inca Message Decoded By Student
AncientPages.com | December 27, 2017 | Archaeology News, Artifacts, News
Unraveling the secret of the quipu is by no means easy, but one student has successfully decoded an ancient Inca message.
As mentioned earlier on Ancient Pages, the quipu is one of the most mysterious phenomena that existed in odd number of dimensions.
Deciphering the knots is of great importance as it gives a better understanding of what life was like for the Inca. A quipu contains a secret message and when we decode it, we give South American people a chance to speak.
Secrets Of Quipu- Sacred Ancient Inca Message Decoded By Student
Manny Medrano is a Harvard student who has made an astonishing archaeological breakthrough. Together with his Professor, Gary Urton, a scholar of Pre-Columbian studies, Medrano interpreted a set of six quipus, knotted cords used for record keeping in the Inca Empire.
“There’s something in me, I can’t explain where it came from, but I love the idea of digging around and trying to find secrets hidden from the past,” Medrano said.
“I could never figure out the hidden meanings in these devices. Manny figured them out, focusing on their color, and on their recto or verso (right-hand and left-hand) construction. This was the only case we have discovered so far in which one or more (in this case six) quipus and a census record matches,” Professor Urton said.
More: http://www.ancientpages.com/2017/12/27/secrets-quipu-ancient-inca-message-decoded-student/
AncientPages.com | December 27, 2017 | Archaeology News, Artifacts, News
Unraveling the secret of the quipu is by no means easy, but one student has successfully decoded an ancient Inca message.
As mentioned earlier on Ancient Pages, the quipu is one of the most mysterious phenomena that existed in odd number of dimensions.
Deciphering the knots is of great importance as it gives a better understanding of what life was like for the Inca. A quipu contains a secret message and when we decode it, we give South American people a chance to speak.
Secrets Of Quipu- Sacred Ancient Inca Message Decoded By Student
Manny Medrano is a Harvard student who has made an astonishing archaeological breakthrough. Together with his Professor, Gary Urton, a scholar of Pre-Columbian studies, Medrano interpreted a set of six quipus, knotted cords used for record keeping in the Inca Empire.
“There’s something in me, I can’t explain where it came from, but I love the idea of digging around and trying to find secrets hidden from the past,” Medrano said.
“I could never figure out the hidden meanings in these devices. Manny figured them out, focusing on their color, and on their recto or verso (right-hand and left-hand) construction. This was the only case we have discovered so far in which one or more (in this case six) quipus and a census record matches,” Professor Urton said.
More: http://www.ancientpages.com/2017/12/27/secrets-quipu-ancient-inca-message-decoded-student/