Back to this..........and why i think it may have been the start of written language........i.e. ......math........why would math be more likely to be the 1st thing humans started writting down?????  Well, look at language..........any language.......concepts........like peace, justice, love.......those are more abstract...........than like 5 logs..........4 twigs..............9 bolders..........etc........that u may need to build a shelter........

1. 1. The Ishango bone is a bone tool, dated to the Upper Paleolithic era. It is a dark brown length of bone, the fibula of a baboon, with a sharp piece of quartz affixed to one end, perhaps for engraving.

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The Ishango bone is a bone tool, dated to the Upper Paleolithic era. It is a dark brown length of bone, the fibula of a baboon, with a sharp piece of quartz affixed to one end, perhaps for engraving.

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an old Mathematical Object

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At one end of the Ishango Bone is a piece of quartz for writing, and the bone has a series of notches carved in groups (shown below). It was first thought these notches were some kind of tally marks as found to record counts all over the world.

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The Ishango Bone: Craddle of Ancient Mathematics | African ...

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Aug 29, 2013 - Today, I would like to talk about the Ishango bone, or rather the first evidence of a calculator in the world. Named after the place where it was ...

The Prime Glossary: Ishango bone

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Welcome to the Prime Glossary: a collection of definitions, information and facts all related to prime numbers. This pages contains the entry titled 'Ishango bone.

Ishango Bone -- from Wolfram MathWorld

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The Ishango bone is the oldest known object containing logical carvings. It was discovered in the Congo, and has been dated to be 22000 years old. The middle ...

[PDF]DOES THE ISHANGO BONE INDICATE A ... - arXiv

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The Heinzelin's Ishango bone has notches that seem to form patterns, ... the hypothesis that the Ishango bone is a primitive mathematical tool using the base 12 ...

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Perhaps the oldest mathematical artifact in existence, the Ishango Bone (above), was unearthed in 1950 in the then Belgian colony of the Congo (now the ...

The Ishango Bone, Possibly One of the Oldest Calendars ...

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The Ishango Bone, Possibly One of the Oldest Calendars (25,000 BCE – 20,000 BCE) ... He argued that talley marks on certain bones represented a system of ...

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Can you decode the mysterious markings on this ancient bone tool?