A Systemic Reconstruction of NAMA 4974 as a Pre-Scriptural, Analog Navigation Computer and Meteorological Nomogram of the European Early Bronze Age

This interdisciplinary study breaks with the classical archaeological paradigm that systematically classifies the geometrically structured clay discs of the Keros-Syros culture (c. 2700–2300 BC)—commonly referred to as “Cycladic frying pans”—as ritual cult objects. Focusing on the reference artifact NAMA 4974, an open-ended system analysis of its physical parameters demonstrates that the object functioned as an analog […]