Pixel Quipu (Inca knots)

This is awesome! Much easier to see and compare than looking at pictures of the originals, or reading the raw data files from the Harvard database.

The Wikipedia article seems like a pretty good summary of what we know about quipus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu

Since the Spanish destroyed so much, a lot of it is fairly speculative.

Very nice!

Also I just stumbled upon this article about Khipus that have been recently uncovered:

http://anthropology.net/2016/01/03/between-the-knots-untying...