The material origin of numbers: insights from the archaeology of the ancient Near East
Introduction -- Numbers through a different lens -- What's a number, really? -- Assembling an elephant, one bit at a time -- Behavioral traces -- Language in holistic context -- Ancient languages and Mesopotamian numbers -- Fingers and tallies -- The Neolithic clay tokens -- Numerical notations...
| Published in: | Gorgias studies in the Ancient Near East |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Piscataway, NJ
Gorgias Press
2019
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Gorgias studies in the Ancient Near East (14)
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| Series/Journal: | Gorgias studies in the Ancient Near East
14 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ancient Orient
/ Number
/ Mathematics
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| Further subjects: | B
Grammar, Comparative and general
Numerals
B Mathematics (Middle East) Philosophy History B Mathematics (Middle East) History B Mathematics Philosophy History B Ethnology (Middle East) B Number theory History B Numeration History B Counting History |
| Summary: | Introduction -- Numbers through a different lens -- What's a number, really? -- Assembling an elephant, one bit at a time -- Behavioral traces -- Language in holistic context -- Ancient languages and Mesopotamian numbers -- Fingers and tallies -- The Neolithic clay tokens -- Numerical notations and writing -- The role of materiality in numerical concepts -- Concluding remarks and questions. "The Material Origin of Numbers examines how number concepts are realized, represented, manipulated, and elaborated. Utilizing the cognitive archaeological framework of Material Engagement Theory and culling data from disciplines including neuroscience, ethnography, linguistics, and archaeology, Overmann offers a methodologically rich study of numbers and number concepts in the ancient Near East from the late Upper Paleolithic Period through the Bronze Age"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1463207433 |