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  1. Why were cones and tetrahedra such popular counting-tokens in the ancient Near East?
  2. Goats were initially domesticated (c. 8,000 BCE) for their use as work animals.
  3. A number is not a word, it is a set
  4. Tepe Tula'i, a Neolithic site in SW Iran, served a community of seasonally nomadic families.
  5. Tepe Gobekli was an astronomical observatory
  6. For physics to be an empirical science, it must assume the universe is finite.
  7. People classify symmetrical patterns faster than asymmetrical patterns