Which risk increased for Inca record-keepers when environmental humidity rose?

💡 Explanation

Data transcription errors become increasingly likely because higher humidity can lead to fibers swelling and distorting relative knot positions on a khipu textile, thus impacting numerical precision during interpretation, rather than causing knot tangling directly.

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