"This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them"--
"This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them"--
Karenleigh A. Overmann earned her doctorate in archaeology from the University of Oxford as a Clarendon scholar after retiring from twenty-five years of active service in the US Navy. She currently directs the Center for Cognitive Archaeology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Numbers in a nutshell 2. Converging perspectives on numbers 3. The brain in numbers 4. Bodies and behaviors 5. Language in numbers 6. Global and regional patterns 7. Materiality in numbers 8. Materiality in cognition 9. Making quantity tangible and manipulable 10. Tallies and other devices that accumulate 11. Interpreting prehistoric artifacts 12. Devices that accumulate and group 13. Handwritten notations 14. The materiality of numbers.
1. Numbers in a nutshell 2. Converging perspectives on numbers 3. The brain in numbers 4. Bodies and behaviors 5. Language in numbers 6. Global and regional patterns 7. Materiality in numbers 8. Materiality in cognition 9. Making quantity tangible and manipulable 10. Tallies and other devices that accumulate 11. Interpreting prehistoric artifacts 12. Devices that accumulate and group 13. Handwritten notations 14. The materiality of numbers.
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