EPISODE · Mar 23, 2026 · 42 MIN
Please Don’t Eat the Halafian Daisies, or Plant Based Mathematics in Prehistory?
from This Week in the Ancient Near East · host thisweekintheancientneareast
New research suggests that the painted designs on prehistoric Halafian pottery represent mathematical reasoning. If you count all the leaves and bushes, this tracks. What kind of crazy people count the leaves and bushes? Archaeologists, that’s who.
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