+ Christian Perrein: La numération vigésimale dans l’écozone paléarctique est-elle d’origine mésolithique? (posthumously)
Abstract
This article highlights the “linguistic areas” for the vigesimal counting system in the Palearctic region. These areas can be associated with the existing language families to a considerable degree. The vigesimality appears as an archaism that it is interesting, particularly with regard to the Neolithization process whose spatiotemporal dynamics in Europe are well known. In a long-term history of counting and number construction, the attempt to understand this phenomenon should be given an anthropological perspective and an interdisciplinary approach that includes both linguistics and cognitive sciences.
[indo-europeanization, historical linguistics, vigesimality, numerals, hunter-gatherers, megalithism, totemism]
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