Dissertations abstracted are: Salt-Making, Merchants and Markets: The Role of a Critical Resource in the Development of Maya Civilization by Anthony Parshall Andrews; Military and Financial Government in France, 1648-1 661 by Peter Jonathan Berger;...
Accounting -- Peru -- History;Quipu -- History;Incas -- Accounting
The quipu was the ingenious, knotted-string device utilized throughout the Incan empire for recording data within the decimal system. Although quipu experts have often been thought of as managerial or governmental accountants, the writings of the...