Person

Peter Damerow

Historian of science and early mathematics focused on administrative origins of writing and calculation.

Why this matters

Damerow shows how accounting practices become cognitive technology before philosophy arrives.

Works

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Archaic

Nissen, Hans J., Peter Damerow, and Robert K. Englund. *Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 19

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