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Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

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Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

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