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Sep 11, 2002
"The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone." --Michelangelo
The Ishongo bone is considered by anthropologists to be the second oldest mathematical tool after the Lebombo bone found in Swaziland. Recent studies show that the bone is also a lunar phase counter! Were women our first mathematicians?