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.