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Khipu Knots and Data Plots: Materiality in a Digital Age | Synapse

May 20, 2026Open Access

Khipu Knots and Data Plots: Materiality in a Digital Age

Key Points

The aim is to explore the relationship between ancient khipu knots and contemporary data representation.
Presentation at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting
Discussion of modern decipherment techniques
Comparison of khipu with modern data practices
Highlighted the significance of material culture in understanding data.
Showed parallels between khipu and digital data representation.
Suggested that historical techniques inform modern data analysis.

Abstract

This talk was originally presented in a session titled “Knots, Glyphs, and Data: The Landscape of Modern Decipherment in the Ancient Americas” at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in San Francisco from April 29–May 3, 2026.

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Mackinley FitzPatrick (Mon,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0d50bdf03e14405aa9cbbe https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20275991

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