The archaeology of measurement : comprehending Heaven, Earth and time in ancient societies, edited by Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew, (electronic resource)

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The archaeology of measurement : comprehending Heaven, Earth and time in ancient societies, edited by Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew, (electronic resource)

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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511760822

Title remainder

comprehending Heaven, Earth and time in ancient societies

Medium

electronic resource

Statement of responsibility

edited by Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew

Instantiates

• The archaeology of measurement : comprehending Heaven, Earth and time in ancient societies

Publication

• Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010

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online resource

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• cr

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

• Lambros Malafouris
• Numerical cognition and the development of 'zero' in Mesoamerica
• John Justeson
• Recording measure(ment)s in the Inka khipu
• Gary Urton
• Materialising the economy
• Measuring by weight in the late Bronze Age Aegean : the people behind the measuring tools
• Anna Michailidou
• The concept of weighing during the Bronze Age in the Aegean, the Near East and Europe
• Lorenz Rahmstorf
• Number : counting, mathematics and measure
• Measuring the Harappan world : insights into the Indus order and cosmology
• J. Mark Kenoyer
• Dimension and belief
• Architectural measurements in the Indus cities : the case study of Mohenjo-Daro
• Michael Jansen --dtTeotihuacan city layout as a cosmogram : preliminary results of the 2007 Measurement Unit Study
• Saburo Sagiyama
• Aztec dimensions of holiness
• John E. Clark
• Establishing direction in early Egyptian burials and monumental architecture : measurement and the spatial link with the 'other'
• Kate Spence
• Conceptualising quantification before settlement : activities and issues underlying the conception and use of measurement
• Calendar and cosmology
• The measurement of time and distance in the heavens above Mesopotamia, with brief reference made to other ancient astral sciences
• David Brown
• Evolution of the calendar in Shang China
• Mark Edward Lewis
• The measure of time in Mesoamerica : from Teotihuacan to the Maya
• Anthony F. Aveni
• Measuring time, sacred space, and social place in the Inca Empire
• Charles Stanish
• Measuring time in the European Neolithic? The function and meaning of central European circular enclosures
• Iain Morley
• Peter F. Biehl
• The spirituality of measure
• The roots of spirituality and the limits of human mensuration
• F. LeRon Shultz
• Worldview, measurement and 'the roots of spirituality'
• Jeremy S. Bagbie
• Measurement in navigation : conceiving distance and time in the Neolithic
• Helen Farr
• The token system of the ancient Near East : it's role in counting, writing, the economy and cognition
• Denise Schmandt-Besserat
• Grasping the concept of number : how did the sapient mind move beyond approximation?

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CR9780511760822

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1 online resource (xv, 267 pages)

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9780521119900

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computer

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rdamedia

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• c

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digital, PDF file(s).

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u459412

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remote

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(OCoLC)818850752