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No. 208 · Museum artifacts
Ishango Bone
Upper Palaeolithic Africa
A notched bone that may record early mathematics.
- Maker
- Upper Palaeolithic Africa
- Date
- c. 20,000 BC
- Era
- Deep prehistory
- Style
- Prehistoric
- Form
- Tools
- Origin
- DR Congo
- Where it is
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels