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...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
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| Published: |
Piscataway, NJ
Gorgias Press
2019
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Gorgias studies in the Ancient Near East (14)
Year: 2019 |
| 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 |