Early Counting

Calvin C. Clawson

Chapter Chapter 2 in The Mathematical Traveler, 1994, pp 19-36 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We will now investigate how long people have been counting. If counting is a recently acquired skill for human beings, then we might conclude that it is not, after all, intimately connected to our basic nature. If, on the other hand, we find that it is ancient, dating even as far back as our prehuman ancestors, we could conclude that counting is part of what it is to be human, just as language and tool-making are fundamental to our species.

Keywords: Middle Finger; Ring Finger; Ordinal Number; Cardinal Number; Number Word (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-6014-6_3

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