Mesopotamia 74
Pirahã 279, 281–2
shell beads 264–7
tallies and 42
Tiglath-Pileser I and 87
Tongan 250
trans-Saharan 151
triangular numbers 152
Trukese 251
Tu‘i Tonga chiefs 246
Tukulti-Ninurta I 86
typewriter 209, 217
Umayyad caliphate 148, 157
umbisag (accountant or scribe) 79–80
University of Tübingen, Germany 19
al-Uqlidisi, ‘the Euclidean’ 149, 150, 154, 155
Uruk 72–80, 75, 84, 85–7
USA: population census in 206–14, 210
Van De Mieroop, Marc 80
Vedas 136–8
Vigila (monk) 157
Vijjadavida, India 142
Vikramaditya VI, King 142
Visigoths 161
voting 101–11, 103
Wappo 264, 265
Waxaklahun-Ubah-K’awil, King 270–8
weather observation 173–81, 178
webtoons 215–16, 216, 218, 220–4
Western Chalukya Empire 142
wild number lines 31–62, 33, 42, 45, 47, 99
beads see beads
butchery marks see butchery marks
hands see hands
order of emergence 62
words see words, counting
Wokox (Southeastern Pomo informant) 264
Woleai, Central Carolines 251
Wood, Thomas 200–1, 204
World Wide Web 218
