Color in Wari and Inka Khipus

Author(s): Gary Urton

Year: 2016

Summary

This paper analyzes the uses of color in the Wari and Inka khipus. The focus of the study will be on the ranges and ways of combining colors used in each tradition. The central question to be addressed is: How was color used as a medium of coding information in each tradition and what can we say about how and why the system of color may have changed as it did from Wari to Inka times?

Cite this Record

Color in Wari and Inka Khipus. Gary Urton. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403320)

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Spatial Coverage

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