Signs of the Inka Khipu
by Gary Urton · first published 2003
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Quipu are hardly primitive and it is still debated as to whether they encoded natural language. Here are a couple of good books that go in to detail on exactly how complex these devices were. Signs of the Inka Khipu by Gary Urton http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/urtsig Signs of the Inka Khipu goes into detail describing the binary coding mechanisms used in quipu which included not just a dimension of relative…
on “The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy (2012)” ↗Gary Urton's book, "Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records" [0] is a great introduction to this topic. After reading this I was reminded how not all writing systems can easily be encoded in utf-8, à la Awesome…
on “The Inca Used Knots to Tell Stories” ↗