00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217612730569 Buklod 20180405140802.0 m go j ta 100518s2010 enkab rb |001 0|eng d 9780521135887 (pbk.) (iLib)UPD-00360916741 DLC DASP rda eng DMLUC GN 799 B8 A73 2010 The archaeology of measurement comprehending heaven, earth and time in ancient societies edited by Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew. Comprehending Heaven, Earth and time in ancient societies New York Cambridge University Press 2010. xv, 267 pages illustrations, maps 28 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Architecture, Prehistoric. Measurement History. Antiquities. Morley, Iain 1975- editor. Renfrew, Colin 1937- editor. e-books available via online subscription through Cambridge Books Online. Click here to access http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511760822 FO UPD DASP GN 799 B8 A73 2010 Book