Category:Ishango bone

**Ishango bone**
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Instance of	archaeological find; bone tool;
Named after	Ishango;
Made from material	fibula (Papio);
Discoverer or inventor	Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt;
Location of discovery	Ishango;
Has use	arithmetic; tally stick;
Collection	Museum of Natural Sciences of Belgium;
Inception	18th millennium BC; 20th millennium BC;
Time of discovery or invention	1960;
Length	10 cm;
Different from	Lebombo bone;
Authority file
	Q1077717;
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Català: Os d'Ishango

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Deutsch: Ishango bone

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Español: Hueso de Ishango

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Français : Os d'Ishango

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Nederlands: Ishango-beentje

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English: The Ishango bone is a bone tool, dated to the Upper Paleolithic era, about 18000 to 20000 BC. It is a dark brown length of bone, the fibula of a baboon, with a sharp piece of quartz affixed to one end, perhaps for engraving or writing.

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