El registro simbólico en la prehistoriauna mirada matemática inclusiva
- Francisco A. González Redondo 1
- Rosario E. Fernández Terán 1
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 0213-6252
Year of publication: 2022
Issue Title: Event places: espacios de ocio y lugares memorables
Issue: 112-113
Pages: 138-146
Type: Article
More publications in: Abaco: Revista de cultura y ciencias sociales
Abstract
Today it seems assumed that some 40,000 years ago our ancestors were already endowed with the ability to symbolically register thought. However, along with horses, deer, goats or bison painted on cave walls or engraved on bone, in Prehistory we also find «abstract» symbolic manifestations containing a type of non-figurative record that, rather than being considered «art», can only be understood from a «mathematical» perspective. On the other hand, the interpretation is becoming generalized that these records would constitute some kind of counting and even calendrical-astronomical recording, and, furthermore, that part of these records were made by women.