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The archaeology of measurement : comprehending Heaven, Earth and time in ancient societies
- Title
- The archaeology of measurement : comprehending Heaven, Earth and time in ancient societies / edited by Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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- Description
- xv, 267 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Comprehending Heaven, Earth and time in ancient societies
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Number : counting, mathematics and measure. Conceptualising quantification before settlement : activities and issues underlying the conception and use of measurement / Iain Morley ; 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? / 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 ; 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 ; Teotihuacan 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 -- 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 / Peter F. Biehl -- The spirituality of measure. The roots of spirituality and the limits of human mensuration / F. LeRon Shultz ; Worldview, meaasurement and 'the roots of spirituality' / Jeremy S. Bagbie.
- Call Number
- JFF 10-918
- ISBN
- 9780521119900 (hbk.)
- 0521119901 (hbk.)
- 9780521135887 (pbk.)
- 0521135885 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2010279304
- OCLC
- YBP 2010279304
- Title
- The archaeology of measurement : comprehending Heaven, Earth and time in ancient societies / edited by Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Morley, Iain, 1975-Renfrew, Colin, 1937-
- Research Call Number
- JFF 10-918