Please Don’t Eat the Halafian Daisies, or Plant Based Mathematics in Prehistory?
About this episode
The episode discusses new research suggesting that designs on Halafian pottery may represent mathematical reasoning.
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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