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Introduction | |
Number: Counting, Mathematics, and Measure | |
Conceptualising quantification before settlement: activities and issues underlying the conception and use of measurement | |
Measurement in navigation: conceiving distance and time in the Neolithic | |
The token system of the ancient Near East: its role in counting, writing, the economy and cognition | |
Grasping the concept of number: how did the sapient mind move beyond approximation? | |
Numerical cognition and the development of 'zero' in Mesoamerica | |
Recording measure(ment)s in the Inka Khipu | |
Materialising the Economy | |
Measuring by weight in the late Bronze Age Aegean: the people behind the measuring tools | |
The concept of weighing during the Bronze Age in the Aegean, the Near East and Europe | |
Measuring the Harappan world: insights into the Indus order and cosmology | |
Dimensions and Belief | |
Architectural measurements in the Indus cities: the case study of Mohenjo-Daro | |
Teothuacan City layout as a cosmogram: preliminary results of the 2007 measurement unit study | |
Aztec dimensions of holiness | |
Establishing direction in early Egyptian burials and monumental architecture: measurement and the spatial link with the 'other' | |
Calendar and Cosmology | |
The measurement of time and distance in the heavens above Mesopotamia, with brief reference made to other ancient astral sciences | |
Evolution of the calendar in Shang China | |
The measure of time in Meso-America: from Teotihuacan to the Maya | |
Measuring time, sacred space, and social place in the Inca Empire | |
Measuring time in the European Neolithic? The function and meaning of Central European circular enclosures | |
The Spirituality of Measure | |
The roots of spirituality and the limits of human mensuration | |
Worldview, measurement and 'the roots of spirituality' | |
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