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The split tally was accepted as legal proof in medieval courts and the Napoleonic Code (1804) still makes reference to the tally stick in Article 1333. [6] Along the Danube and in Switzerland the tally was still used in the 20th century in rural economies. The most prominent and best recorded use of the split tally stick or "nick-stick" [7] [8 ...
It is thought by some to be a tally stick, as it features a series of what has been interpreted as tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the tool, though it has also been suggested that the scratches might have been to create a better grip on the handle or for some other non-mathematical reason. Others argue that the marks ...
The "measuring rod" or tally stick is common in the iconography of Greek Goddess Nemesis. [32] The Graeco-Egyptian God Serapis is also depicted in images and on coins with a measuring rod in hand and a vessel on his head. [33] [34] The most elaborate depiction is found on the Ur-Nammu-stela, where the winding of the cords has been detailed by ...
Sitemap of Dolní Věstonice 1 and 2. Dolní Věstonice is an open-air site located along a stream. Its people hunted mammoths and other herd animals, saving mammoth and other bones that could be used to construct a fence-like boundary, separating the living space into a distinct inside and outside.
The Cerutti Mastodon site (SDNHM locality 3767) is a paleontological site located in San Diego County, California, United States.A team of researchers from the San Diego Natural History Museum, led by Thomas Deméré, excavated the site from 1992 to 1993.
In archaeology, lithic analysis is the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts using basic scientific techniques. At its most basic level, lithic analyses involve an analysis of the artifact's morphology, the measurement of various physical attributes, and examining other visible features (such as noting the presence or absence of cortex, for example).
In archaeology, in particular of the Stone Age, lithic reduction is the process of fashioning stones or rocks from their natural state into tools or weapons by removing some parts. It has been intensely studied and many archaeological industries are identified almost entirely by the lithic analysis of the precise style of their tools and the ...
Also an uncited statement that tally sticks were used for 'primarily mnemonic purposes.' Not only is there no citation, such sticks would not be tally sticks, but rather mnemonic sticks (i.e. mnemonic devices). I would propose that the this article be renamed 'split tally sticks' and the single tally sections be merged with the tally marks article.