This new article on artificial memory systems "tallies" / "counting devices" is very important. It provides new ways of identifying Paleolithic AMS, and thus the origins of extended numerical cognition in humans.
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For any PhD Students or ECRs in search of support in preparing their first journal article for publication, do check out this exciting workshop, run by @hisjournalha.bsky.social!
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A fascinating new research that challenges what we know about the numerical notations on the Visigothic slates. Today we highlight the article by our co-PI @nereavsk.bsky.social "Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach".
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New in our special issue of Topics in Cognitive Science, "Cognitive Technologies and their Histories": "Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach" by @nereavsk.bsky.social. Open access!
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Artificial Memory Systems (AMSs) are tools that allow for the storage and retrieval of coded information beyond the physical body, ranging from computers and writing systems to tallying sticks. Curren...
This paper analyzes the numbers engraved on Visigothic slates. Results suggest that written slates worked as an asynchronous code to facilitate dual communication, while numerical slates could be use...
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I'm starting a project on changes in the English numeral system from ~1800-1950. Very interested in links between changes in technology and bureaucracy and number systems, e.g. how people read and spoke numbers. Anyone have any interesting sources I should be looking at?
It’s time for a reckoning! Or, to be more accurate, a number of reckonings. We talk to Dr. Stephen Chrisomalis, a linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of mathematics and the interaction of language, cognition, and culture, about his new book Reckonings . It’s a fascinating
