Certainly, the main purpose of the quipu was to track and manage the data of populations, goods, resources, and taxes. It was the administrative tool of the empire.

The Inca Road system and the quipu recording devices predated the forming of the empire, but the Inca vastly expanded their use and importance. Marcone Flores says that nobody started from zero — even ...

Hoard of Incan ‘calculators’ unearthed: 25 'quipus' reveal record-keeping of culture that had no written language. Quipus are an ancient string device used throughout the Inca Empire ...

In some cases, it carried other information, such as dates or records of events. The use of the quipu dates back to 2500 BCE, long before the Inca Empire emerged. We still don't know how it ...