how did the inca keep records?

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"Quipu", Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipus

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"Quipu: A Modern Mystery", Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology : http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/laarch/inca/quipue.html

"Experts 'decipher' Inca strings", BBC News, 12 August 2005 : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4143968.stm

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Inca Record Keeping

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Although the Incas had no system of writing, they did have a thorough record-keeping system. In order to deal efficiently with matters of state, the Inca government kept detailed inventories of all the people, livestock, gold, land, crop harvests, armies, and projects of the empire. The Incas kept these records by means of quipus (pronounced KEE-pooz), a series of knotted strings hung from a main top string. The Incas encoded numerical data in the strings by varying the spacing of the knots and strings. The colors and kinds of string used were also significant in representing the type of information being recorded. For example, a yellow string may have been used for an inventory of corn or gold. Only a specially trained record keeper called a quipucamayo could create or interpret the quipus. Essentially, the quipu was a memory aid for the quipucamayo, who was responsible for reporting census data and detailed inventories to the central government. The Inca emperor kept many such record keepers throughout the empire, often assigning several to one location to ensure the accuracy of the records. Following the Spanish conquest and the introduction of records written in Spanish, the Incas lost the ability to read quipus. Modern scholars still have not fully deciphered the complex codes used in the creation of quipus.

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