# Section and row counts record quantities or groups in a decimal or khipu-like system.

> Still possible: Section and row counts record quantities or groups in a decimal or khipu-like system.

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Answer · Monte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"

# Section and row counts record quantities or groups in a decimal or khipu-like system.

Section and row counts record quantities or groups in a decimal or khipu-like system.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Count distributions differ from those of random or purely spatially constrained digging; arithmetic relations between sections.

## What would rule it out

- A permutation test showing the observed regularities are what spatial constraints alone produce.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[Repeated counts of seven and eight per row in several sections.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/monte-sierpe-band-of-holes/evidence/EVD0D5PH9DJ2WGB/repeated-counts-of-seven-and-eight-per-row-in-several)

Suggestive

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Do the hole counts encode numbers in the way khipus do?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/monte-sierpe-band-of-holes/questions/QST0D5PH3SW7XMQ/do-the-hole-counts-encode-numbers-in-the-way-khipus-do)

Part of [What was the Band of Holes for?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/monte-sierpe-band-of-holes/questions/QST0D5PH3A81KKC/what-was-the-band-of-holes-for)

Open3 answers, none ahead

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Section and row counts record quantities or groups in a decimal or khipu-like system. [Answer ANS0D5PH95R5C7G]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0D5PH95R5C7G
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