TY - GEN AU - Urton,Gary TI - Signs of the inca khipu: binary coding in the Andean knotted-string records T2 - The Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian Studies SN - 0-292-78540-2 U1 - 985.02 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Austin, Texas - US PB - University of Texas Press KW - KIPUS KW - SISTEMA BINARIO KW - INCAS KW - COMUNICACION KW - SIMBOLOGIA KW - MATEMATICAS KW - SISTEMAS DE INFORMACION KW - LINGUISTICA KW - HISTORIA N2 - Contiene: Memory, writing, and record keeping in the inka empire - Theory and methods in the study of khipu binary coding - The psysical components of khipu binary coding - The linguistic components of khipu binary coding - khipu sign capacity and code conversion - sign theory, markedness, and parallelism in the khipu information system - Conclusions - Appendix: tabular description of khipu UR19 from Chachapoyas ER -