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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 May 2023
      25 May 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009361262
      9781009361248
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009361262
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.76kg, 444 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Prehistory, Ancient History, Classical Studies, Archaeology
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    This is a book about numbers – what they are as concepts and how and why they originate – as viewed through the material devices used to represent and manipulate them. 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. Overmann is the first to explore how material devices contribute to numerical thinking, initially by helping us to visualize and manipulate the perceptual experience of quantity that we share with other species. She explores how and why numbers are conceptualized and then elaborated, as well as the central role that material objects play in both processes. Overmann's volume thus offers a view of numerical cognition that is based on an alternative set of assumptions about numbers, their material component, and the nature of the human mind and thinking.

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