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THE ICE AGE INFORMATION EXPLOSION
2023
Overview
In ancient Peru, Incan messengers used to travel across the Andes carrying a bundle of woven thread known as a quipu, or “talking strings.” When a messenger arrived at his destination, he would deliver his news while reeling off knots in the string like a rosary. For the Incas, a people with no written language, the quipu served as their core information technology: it was a newspaper, a calculator, even a repository of laws. A skilled quipucumaya (“keeper of the quipus”) could use the device to tell complex stories by weaving the colored threads together. Each thread represented a different
Publisher
Cornell University Press
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ISBN
9781501768675, 1501768670
