Gary Urton Quotes

We think those may be the narrative ones. - Gary Urton

We suggest that any khipu moving within the state administrative system bearing an initial arrangement of three figure-eight knots would have been immediately recognizable to Inca administrators as an account pertaining to the palace of Puruchuco. - Gary Urton

We know a great deal of the bureaucracy was occupied in overseeing tribute labor for the state, so I suspect a large percentage of the quipu had to do with labor. - Gary Urton

We hypothesize that the arrangement of three figure-eight knots at the start of these khipu represented the place identifier, or toponym, Puruchuco. - Gary Urton

The use of conventional signs is my definition of writing... information is being passed through three different levels in ways suggestive of a conventional system. - Gary Urton

For the first time, really, we can see how information that was of interest to the state was moving up and down in a set of interrelated khipu. - Gary Urton

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