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

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

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

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 ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...