2010/12/01 by Spyros Missiakoulis · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Classical Antiquity Studies #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Historical and Literary Studies
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2010.00124.x
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Summary In 16th century B.C., Cecrops, the legendary first king of Athens, took a census of his subjects that had all the properties of a population census. Each person was commanded to cast a single stone and by counting the stones, it was found that they were twenty thousand inhabitants. With respect to the history of statistics, this Cecrops’ census appears to be (?) the earliest real recorded population census ever reported.