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DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric O Oakley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper argues that information was the crucial ingredient in the organization and economic exploitation of the Pacific Ocean in connection with the China Trade. This claim may appear obvious, but information is often perceived as intangible content rather than a "hidden" commodity in its own right. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Splitstoser. Jon Clindaniel.

This is an abstract from the "Cordage, Yarn, and Associated Paraphernalia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While Andean khipus—indigenous knot-and-cord recording devices—have been extensively studied over the past hundred years in their final, completed form, relatively little attention has been paid to the process by which they were made. As such, the level of agency that khipu makers, called khipukamayuqs, had in producing khipus is not fully...