The chalk drums from Folkton and Lavant: measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge

DOI10.1080/17498430.2018.1555927MaRDI QIDQ5378560zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Anne Teather, Andrew Chamberlain, Mike Parker Pearson

Publication date 3 June 2019

Published in British Journal for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10092162/

zbMATH Keywords

archaeologyFolkton and Lavant drumsPaleolithic and Neolithic periods (4000--7500 BC)standards of scale measurementsStonehenge

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematics and architecture (00A67) General and miscellaneous specific topics (00A99) History of mathematics in Paleolithic and Neolithic times (01A10)

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