Papers originally presented at a symposium held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The concept of weighing during the Bronze Age in the Aegean, the Near East and Europe / Conceptualising quantification before settlement : activities and issues underlying the conception and use of measurement / Lorenz Rahmstorf -- 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 time, sacred space, and social place in the Inca Empire / Charles Stanish -- 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 -- 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 -- Worldview, measurement and 'the roots of spirituality' / Jeremy S. Bagbie. 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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