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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Main Author: Overmann, Karenleigh A. 1957- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Piscataway, NJ Gorgias Press 2019
In: 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
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

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