yupana
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Types
- History
- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
- José de Acosta
- Juan de Velasco
- Table yupana
- The Chordeleg Yupana
- The Caraz Yupana
- The Callejón de Huaylas Yupana
- The Triangular Yupana
- The Chan Chan Yupana
- The Cárhua de la Bahía Yupana
- The Huancarcuchu Yupana
- The Florio Yupana
- Theories based on the Poma de Ayala yupana
- Henry Wassen
- Emilio Mendizabal
- Radicati di Primeglio
- William Burns Glynn
- Nicolino de Pasquale
- Cinzia Florio
- Andrés Chirinos (2010)
- See also
- References
- External links
- Chroniclers of the Indies
- Theory by Wassen and table-Yupana
- Theory by Glynn Burns and school projects
- Theory by De Pasquale
- Theory by C. Florio
thumb|A sketch of Quipucamayoc from [[El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno. A yupana is shown in the bottom left.]] thumb|An Inca "table yupana" artifact, possibly unrelated to the historical calculating instrument
A yupana (from Quechua: yupay 'count') is a counting board used to perform arithmetic operations, dating back to the time of the Incas. Very little documentation exists concerning its precise physical form or how it was used.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “yupana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.