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Who made Inca knot records?

The Inca society kept records by encoding information into a system of knotted strings. A new analysis of hair woven into these strings suggests that this record keeping wasn’t just an activity by rich elites, but that commoners could do it as well.

NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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