# Khipu making extended beyond the elite to commoners and local communities.

> Most likely: Khipu making extended beyond the elite to commoners and local communities.

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Answer · Inka khipus: the knotted-cord records

# Khipu making extended beyond the elite to commoners and local communities.

Khipu making extended beyond the elite to commoners and local communities.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests partly supported it: two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- More hair-cord khipus give commoner isotope profiles.
- Village khipus continue into the colonial and modern periods.

## What would rule it out

- Further isotope studies find only elite profiles.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[KH0631, an Inka-period khipu with a human-hair primary cord, was made by someone with a commoner's diet.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/khipu/evidence/EVD0D4V86PG4RZG/kh0631-an-inka-period-khipu-with-a-human-hair-primary-cord)

Suggestive

FOR

[Village communities used khipu boards in ritual into the 1950s.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/khipu/evidence/EVD0D4V86YA6YMB/village-communities-used-khipu-boards-in-ritual-into-the)

Supported

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Who made and read khipus?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/khipu/questions/QST0D4V80BC5DXR/who-made-and-read-khipus)

Most likelyKhipu making extended beyond the elite to commoners and local communities

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Khipu making extended beyond the elite to commoners and local communities. [Answer ANS0D4V86EP26N3]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D4V86EP26N3
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