The archaeology of measurement : comprehending heaven, earth and time in ancient societies

Parallelsachtitel: Comprehending heaven, earth and time in ancient societies
Körperschaft: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge,
Weitere Verfasser: Morley, Iain, 1975-
Renfrew, Colin, 1937-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Umfang/Format: xv, 267 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 28 cm.
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300 |a xv, 267 p. :  |b ill., maps, plans ;  |c 28 cm. 
500 |a Papers originally presented at a symposium held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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 --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 -- 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 -- 
505 0 |a 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, measurement and 'the roots of spirituality' / Jeremy S. Bagbie. 
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