Some remarks on the cognitive impact of metallurgical development in promoting numerical and metrological abstraction in Europe
If we accept the thesis that advanced metrological systems existed in Bronze Age societies, described and analysed as weight standards by many authors, we should also consider its simple consequence; these weight standards were the successors of earlier and rather simpler systems of value that devel...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2015-12-01
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Series: | Documenta Praehistorica |
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Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/3089 |