[Aztlan] Ep: meeting announcement: Sat Feb 20 Urton & Brezine on deciphering khipus

[JSJusteson at aol.com]

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT:  Northeast Mesoamerican Epigraphy Group  (NutMEG)
 
On Saturday, February 20, at 1:30pm, Gary Urton and Carrie Brezine will  
discuss their work on the khipu at the Bowditch Room in the Peabody Museum (our  
usual meeting place at Harvard).  In general, the program will focus  on where 
they are in khipu research at present and what  approaches they see as open to 
advancing research to the next stage.   In particular, they will discuss the 
structures of khipus and how they  represented numerical and other meanings.  
They will explore how meanings  can be interpreted in calendrical, census and 
administrative contexts.  The  presentation will include an overview of the 
Khipu database by Carrie Brezine,  who wrote the data entry application for the 
Khipu Database project  at
Harvard.  
 
As usual, interested parties will continue the discussion  at dinner after 
the presentation (around 5:00pm).
 
For further information, contact John Justeson (_justeson at gmail.com_ 
(mailto:justeson at gmail.com) ) or Gary Urton (_gurton at fas.harvard.edu_ 
(mailto:gurton at fas.harvard.edu) ).