One of the most frequent questions I get from both academics and the public is whether anything comparable to the Rosetta Stone exists for khipus. To the excitement, and disappointment, of nearly every audience I speak to, the answer is both yes and no.
As in many academic fields, unpublished PhD dissertations on khipus can be difficult to locate and are largely underrecognized. Anthropologist Carol Mackey’s “Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru” (1970) is perhaps
By way of introduction, I am a mathematician and data-lover and maker who, when growing up, also wanted to be an archaeologist and an art/ist teacher and an architect.
I had long
Writing under the pseudonym, Puck, Bob described his situation in the Anthropology Department at Cornell in the 1980s:
“I spend two days a week on campus...I never visit the office of another
Translated using Google Translate (Leer el texto original en español)
When I was presented with the idea of introducing an upcoming book in Spanish about quipus, my first thought was: I'm
