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The Vučedol Checkerboard
Ivan JURIĆ
Pavao PETRIČEVIĆ
Marija ĐIKIĆ
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"It is none other than the Vučedol culture that in terms of diverse
and richly decorated checkerboard motifs stands above all other
cultures", wrote Schmidt in 1945. In the research presented in the
article: "The origin of the Pythagorean proposition in the Vučedol
culture in Croatia" (Jurić et al., 2000) it has been determined that
the Vučedol culture, lasting from cca 3000 to 2200 BC, was
aware of the system of numbers 3, 4 and 5 and thus perceived
the method of drawing geometric presentations whose lengths of
sides related to one another as whole numbers, presenting the
basis of what was later defined as the Pythagorean proposition.
In this work the authors have explored the relations among the
presentations of different combinations of squares and quadrangles,
called "checkerboards" with systems of numbers 3, 4, 5
as well as 5, 12, 13, and 7, 24 and 25. It has been presupposed
that the Vučedol culture checkerboards were used for presentations
of various mathematical calculations. Out of the numerous
differing presentations of checkerboards, the checkerboard
with 72 fields numerically containing 12 triangles of the 3,
4, 5 system was specially analysed. Also, a hypothesis was put
forward stating that such a checkerboard could have been used
in time calculations, thus revealing that members of the Vučedol
culture were acquainted with a calendar, according to which the
new year started after the winter solstice.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
19610
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Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2002.
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