ISHANGO BONE

Laila Camillo
 Where did mathematics begin?

The ISHANGO BONE

It was discovered by the Belgian
located to :
anthropologist Jean de Heinzelin de
Braucourt in 1950. Is a bone tool, dated to
the Upper Paleolithic era, about 18000 to
20000 BC.

20,000 years old mathematical tool. It

is a dark brown length of bone, the
fibula of a baboon.

Believed to be used by the

Lake Edward, Ishango
population.
Found in 1960 in the Belgian
Congo.
 The scratches that appear on the bone
are as follows:

Left column : 11, 13, 17. 19

Right column: 11, 21, 19, 9
Central column: 3, 6, 4, 8, 10, 5, 5

All the numbers on the left column are prime = 60

All the numbers on the right column are odd = 60

Central column follows multiplication and
division by 2, mostly the second number is twice = 48
or half of the first.
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Researching about the origin of

My idea about Ishango bone, It my course, which is accounting.
This bone may have been
used as a counting tool for is possible one of object of
simple mathematical mathematical. Information about where’s
procedures. mathematical begin.
Thank You !!!