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Accounting in the King's Storehouse: The Inkawasi Khipu Archive
Gary Urton, Alejandro Chu, 2015. Latin American Antiquity 26(4), 512-529.
Publishes 34 excavated khipus from the Inka storage site of Inkawasi, some found with chilli, peanuts and beans, and shows paired khipus with near-identical records used as accounting checks.
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An excavated archive with context.
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Urton, G., & Chu, A. (2015). Accounting in the King's Storehouse: The Inkawasi Khipu Archive. Latin American Antiquity 26(4), 512-529. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.26.4.512
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Urton, Gary and Alejandro Chu. “Accounting in the King's Storehouse: The Inkawasi Khipu Archive.” Latin American Antiquity 26(4), 512-529 (2015). https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.26.4.512.