QU024 - Catalog Information

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Original Author:  Kylie Quave
Museum:  Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Museum Number:  2002.1.118
Provenance:  Unknown
Region:  Unknown
# of Cords:   226 (225p, 1t)
# of Unique Cord Colors:  1
Benford Match:  0.6106
# Ascher Sums (pps, ips, cps, sps,...):  6 (0, 0, 0, 0,...)
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Notes:
This Khipu is part of a 3 khipu study including QU023, QU024, and QU025, by Kylie Quave, as part of her 2005 Emory College undergraduate thesis An Empire Written in String: Inka and Inka-related Khipu in Context QU024 Photograph Image by Kylie Quave, with permission.
Bibliography:

Bibliography for QU024:

Year Author Title Pages
2011 Canales, Elmo León. Los quipus y la calibration radiocarbonica. In Atando cabos, edited by Carmen Arellano Hoffmann and Gary Urton, pp. 229-237. Ministerio de Cultura/Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia Del Perú, Lima. 231-237
2014 Cherkinsky, Alexander, and Gary Urton. Radiocarbon Chronology of Andean Khipus. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2(5260):32-36. 34
2008 Urton, Gary. The Inca Khipu: Knotted-Cord record keeping in the Andes. In Handbook of South American Archaeology, edited by Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell, pp. 831-843 . Springer Verlag, New York. 837; 841
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262
2017 Urton, Gary. Inka History in Knots: Reading Khipus as Primary Sources. University of Texas Press, Austin. 262