Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

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

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

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