Arthur Charpentier on Nostr: "Figuring out when humans began to count systematically, with purpose, is not easy. ...
"Figuring out when humans began to count systematically, with purpose, is not easy. Our first real clues are a handful of curious, carved bones dating from the final few millennia of the three-million-year expanse of the Old Stone Age, or Paleolithic era. Those bones are humanity’s first pocket calculators: For the prehistoric humans who carved them, they were mathematical notebooks and counting aids rolled into one"
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/early-history-countingPublished at
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