Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records

by Gary Urton

Book Overview

In an age when computers process immense amounts of information by the manipulation of sequences of 1s and 0s, it remains a frustrating mystery how prehistoric Inka recordkeepers encoded a tremendous variety and quantity of data using only knotted and dyed strings. Yet the comparison between computers and khipu may hold an important clue to deciphering the Inka records. In this book, Gary Urton sets forth a pathbreaking theory that the manipulation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292785402
• ISBN13: 9780292785403
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.2"