counters 6, 73–4, 82, 97
African archaeology provides earliest evidence for 31, 61
Athenian voting/democracy and 2, 101–11, 103
Brahmi number symbols and 146
counting boards and see counting boards
Europe, origins of in 99–100, 101–11, 103
Mesopotamian 73–4
Pirahã and 281
Pomo and 269
visitor 4
Yup’ik 258–9
counting
Africa and see Africa
after 224, 279–85
Americas see Americas
before writing 31–62
branches in story of 5–6, 67–285
counter cultures see counter cultures
defined 1–2, 3–4, 286–7
East Asia and see East Asia
Europe and see Europe
Fertile Crescent and see Fertile Crescent
future of 289
innate senses of see innate senses
machines that count see machines, counting
number sense before 11–30
number symbols and see number symbols
origins 3, 6, 11–62
Pacific and see Pacific
Court of Green Cloth 126
cubes/cube roots 143, 150, 152, 193, 199
cuneiform 135, 150, 183
dead script 98
emergence of 80–3, 86
spread of 84–5
cuttlefish 13, 14
Dal Yong Jin 222
data-gathering 134
Dauben, Joseph 196–7
decimal system
