The bone that began the space odyssey (Q2564032)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 961189
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 961189 |
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The bone that began the space odyssey (English)
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23 April 1997
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The article describes the Ishango bone, an artefact possibly 11000 years old and carrying an ordered sequence of differentiated notches; it gives a brief account of the origin of the bone, and reports the arithmetical and calendaric-observational interpretations suggested, respectively, by J. de Heinzelin and A. Marshack, pointing out wisely that they must be presumed to be mutually exclusive.
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Ishango bone
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paleolithic notations
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0.7050381302833557
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0.609373152256012
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0.5901313424110413
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