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Khipu Field Guide

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Specialist structured catalogue for surviving khipu attributes and comparison; supports accounting and data analysis while not claiming a complete decipherment of narrative language.

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Khipu are structured Andean record-keeping devices with securely supported numerical functions; whether some encoded full narrative language remains unresolved.

Answer / theory: They did not use alphabetic writing, but they did use khipu as structured records. What supports it: Surviving khipu, colonial references to khipu specialists, and numerical knot structures. What is weak or disputed: Whether khipu encoded full narrative language remains unresolved. Evidence level: Mixed Evidence.
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