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The Andean Khipu and a Pre-Columbian Computer System: A Postcolonial Perspective (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For decades, researchers have strived to “elevate” khipus—Andean knotted cords—to the status of a writing system. However, this discourse is rooted in colonial frameworks for assessing cultural sophistication, which neglect the uniqueness of non-Western systems and obscure the richness of khipus. This paper challenges the conventional debate surrounding...