A New Naming Convention for Andean Khipus

Brezine C.J.; Clindaniel J.; Ghezzi I.; Hyland S.; Medrano M. · Latin American Antiquity (2024) · DOI: 10.1017/laq.2023.71

Resumen

Since the 1970s, hundreds of khipus - Andean knotted-string recording devices - have been named after academic researchers. This practice disassociates individual khipus from their places of origin and reifies scientific inequity. Here, a new convention of the form KH#### (e.g., KH0125) is proposed, which we believe represents a more neutral, direct, and accurate nomenclature. The change is implemented in the Open Khipu Repository (OKR), the largest khipu database. Copyright © The Author(s), 2024.

Instituciones: Universidad de Piura