The quipu is a traditional Andean counting device that uses colored strings and knots in lieu of paper and numbers.

For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced ... they ...

When the Spanish Conquistadors encountered the mighty Inca empire, they found thousands of knotted-up ropes called quipus.

Del mismo modo que la rueda es tecnología, la escritura también lo es. Nos ha permitido almacenar y difundir información desde que, en el 3.300 ...

The Incas had a system of accounting that relied on the quipu. Cords of various colours were attached to a main cord with knots. The number and position of knots as well as the colour of each cord ...

Also, of course, in the case of the Incas, who had no written language, it is unclear what form that record would have taken. We do have, as an earlier questioner suggested, quipus, which are ...

While much of the world used stone tablets or other media that didn’t survive the centuries, the Incas used something called quipu which encoded numeric data in strings using knots. Now the ...

Many cultures used abaci or something similar (such as the Inca quipu). We chose to build two abaci from different cultures in order to compare them: the Russian (Schoty) abacus and the Japanese ...

Los incas y otras civilizaciones andinas confeccionaron hace cientos de años los llamados khipus -o quipus-, un instrumento horizontal con cuerdas o cordeles de lana o algodón coloridos ...

The color-coded strings on the AJB cover represent an Incan quipu, which consists of a main cord (i.e., phylogenetic backbone) from which multiple other strings hang in a nested fashion (i.e ...

Aunque los quipus fueron fabricados por pueblos previos, estos fueron importantes durante el Imperio Inca, que se expandió por el sur de Ecuador y Colombia, partes de Chile, Argentina y ...