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Cast of a carved reindeer antler with tally marks, from around 15,000-9,500 BCE
Counting in prehistory fingers . This is reflected in the etymology of certain number names , such as in the names of ten and hundred in the Proto-Indo-European numerals , both containing the root *dḱ also seen in the word for "finger" (Latin digitus , cognate to English toe ).
Early systems of counting using tally marks appear in the Upper Paleolithic .
The first more complex systems develop in the Ancient Near East together with the development of early writing out of proto-writing systems.
Background [ edit ]
Numerals originally developed from the use of tally marks as a counting aid, with the oldest examples being about 35,000 to 25,000 years old.
Development [ edit ]
Counting aids like tally marks become more sophisticated in the Near Eastern Neolithic , developing into numerical digits in various types of proto-writing during the Chalcolithic .
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See also [ edit ]
Alphabetic numeral system – Type of numeral system
Attic numerals – Symbolic number notation used by the ancient Greeks
Australian Aboriginal enumeration – Counting system used by Australian Aboriginals
Cherty i rezy – hypothesized writing systemPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Chuvash numerals
Counting rods – East Asian numeral systemPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
History of ancient numeral systems – Symbols representing numbers
History of arithmetic – Branch of elementary mathematicsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
History of communication
History of mathematics
Lebombo bone – ArtifactPages displaying short descriptions with no spaces
List of numeral system topics
List of numeral systems
Paleolithic tally sticks – Memory aid devicePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Tally marks – Numeral form used for counting
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