The materiality of numbers : emergence and elaboration from prehistory to present / Karenleigh A. Overmann.
"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"--
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The materiality of numbers : |b emergence and elaboration from prehistory to present / |c Karenleigh A. Overmann. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; |a New York, NY : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2023. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2023 | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Numbers in a nutshell -- Converging perspectives on numbers -- The brain in numbers -- Bodies and behaviors -- Language in numbers -- Global and regional patterns -- Materiality in numbers -- Materiality in cognition -- Making quantity tangible and manipulable -- Tallies and other devices that accumulate -- Interpreting prehistoric artifacts -- Devices that accumulate and group -- Handwritten notations -- The materiality of numbers. | |
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| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2023). | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Numeration |x History. | |
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