The researchers argue that the holes weren't storage silos in the modern sense, but markers of equivalence – a way to make quantities visible and negotiable in a society without currency. Seeing rows of filled pits would have allowed people to assess supply at a glance. Later, with the arrival of the Inca, the same infrastructure may have been repurposed. The empire relied heavily on accounting systems to manage labor, and the segmented, numerical layout of the Band of Holes would have lent itself to tracking these sorts of transactions.
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