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Accounting in the King's Storehouse: the Inkawasi Khipu Archive

Gary Urton, Alejandro Chu, 2015. Latin American Antiquity 26, 512–529.

Khipus and grid-marked floors in an Inca storage complex at Inkawasi, read as accounting for produce.

MYS0D5PH04P6DDC · mystery · click to copyMMonte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"Articledoi: 10.7183/1045-6635.26.4.512Checked against the original0

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The nearest parallel for ground-laid accounting units.

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Urton, G., & Chu, A. (2015). Accounting in the King's Storehouse: the Inkawasi Khipu Archive. Latin American Antiquity 26, 512–529. https://doi.org/10.7183/1045-6635.26.4.512
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