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{ 2009 09 24 }

168 Marks on The Ishango Bone

The marks were humble, even gentle in their up and down march on 30,000 year-old fibula …six times ticking off the lunar month.

My inner eye netted her tiny, black hands meticulously aligning the rows so that her menstrual beat merged with the moon’s ballet; and she became the earth’s first mathematician.

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Posted by mike cahill on Thursday, September 24, 2009, at 3:08 pm. Filed under Competition. Tagged . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. mike cahill | September 27, 2009 at 5:38 pm | Permalink

    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/IshangoBone.html

    see photos of the 1st math

  2. mike cahill | September 27, 2009 at 5:46 pm | Permalink

    http://www.naturalsciences.be/expo/old_ishango/en/index.html

    and here

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