We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Halafian pottery from an excavation at Arpachiyah, Iraq - Yosef Garfinkel Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 ...

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Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found. Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

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