#khipu — Public Fediverse posts

Landscape khipu: A theory that thousands of holes dug into a hill in Peru are a sort of storage and accounting system similar to the knot tying accounting technology
https://newatlas.com/environment/5-200-holes-peruvian-mountain/
#via:hackernews #archaeology #khipu #quipu #peru #+

Khipu – bis zum 17.01.2026 jeden Dienstag Live im Radio! 🔊

Das Projekt Khipu verbindet Technologie und (spekulative) Kosmologie zu einer Neuinterpretation prä-kolumbianischer Informationssysteme. Ausgangspunkt ist das andine Khipu, ein komplexes Knotensystem.

180 handgesponnene Seile bilden eine Antenne, die auf die elektromagnetischen Schwingungen ihrer Umgebung reagiert.

Das Konzept stammt von der Künstlerin Constanza Piña Pardo – einigen vielleicht auch als @corazonderobota bekannt. Melissa Aguilar – @meli.ttologywar – war für Grafik und Buchdesign zuständig und half bei der Umsetzung.

Zu sehen bis zum 17.01.2026 im @esc_medien_kunst_labor, Bürgergasse 5, 8010!

Fotocredits: MGross

#vernissage #khipu #soundart #noise #escmedienkunstlabor #radiohelsinki #live

Big idea: a Harlequin or RC2014-based Khipu-weaving symbolic persistence device.

Wouldn't it be nice if such theoretical device were possible? And it would reunite electronic and electro-mechanical computers with some of their tangential ancestry of the Jacquard loom in some ways.

#permacomputing #retrocomputing #khipu #khipus

Human hair khipus reveal Inca record-keeping was used by both elites and commoners
 
A recently studied 500-year-old Inca khipu (Quipu) has overturned assumptions about who created these intricate thread-based documents. The study, published in Science Advances, suggests that khipus—formerly thought to be the domain of high-level imperial officials—were also made by non-elite members of society...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/human-hair-khipus-used-by-elites-and-commoners/

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#archaeology #khipu #Quipu #incaempire

#khipu #class

"A 500-year-old Inca document made of alpaca wool and human hair was made by an unknown individual of low social status, shattering the common belief that only high-ranking imperial officials knew how to produce these strange thread-based records. Known as a khipu, the artifact forms part of a 'proto-writing' tradition that was widespread in the Andes until the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, and which persisted in isolated highland villages until the 20th century."

https://www.iflscience.com/mysterious-inca-string-writing-system-was-surprisingly-used-by-commoners-as-well-as-elites-80398

Will we ever decode the writing system used by the Inca?

Gift article, no paywall.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/05/decoding-ancient-incas-writing-system-khipus/682814/?gift=TPTA7XiYh9IfxjJRv3IEoC6iqsAbgF4RIs-wGoLJmzw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#inca #khipu #archaeology

✨ Last week we met in Chile 🇨🇱 to share the #Khipu2025 🤩.
🙋‍♀️ Thanks to María Nanton, Patricia Loto and Jesica Formoso for sharing the #OpenScience experiences of MetaDocencia at the poster presentation of #Khipu, the Latin American meeting on AI.

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✨ La semana pasada nos encontramos en Chile 🇨🇱 para compartir la Khipu 2025 🤩
🙋‍♀️ Gracias a María Nanton, Patricia Loto and Jesica Formoso por compartir las experiencias de MetaDocencia en #CienciaAbierta en la presentación de pósteres de #Khipu.

#dora-the-explorer #inca #khipu

https://boffosocko.com/2021/07/23/55793801/

https://boffosocko.com/2020/08/23/khipu/