Das mathematische Denken hat sich möglicherweise lange vor dem Schreiben entwickelt

Not discounting the research done on this paper, but this doesn’t seem mindblowing to me. Basic mathematics, even if not fully understood at the time, seems like something any society needs to get a grasp on before anything like large scale agriculture or commerce can develop.

Well, if you believe greed is the root of all evil in humanity and you accept that in a social or material sense, it necessitates comparison, then you have to be able to number things in order to take things and quantify what you have to juxtapose against what you quantified other humans having.