Ishango is a Congolese lakeshore site located in the north-eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa, previously known as Zaire. This present day village is known as a "fishermen settlement" as it lies on the shores of the Semliki River, flowing out of Lake Edward, serving as one of the sources of the Nile River.[1] This site is known best for its rich biodiversity and archaeological significance, indicating previous human occupation.
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The Ishango bone, discovered at the "Fisherman Settlement" of Ishango in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a bone tool and possible mathematical...
Ishango is a Congolese lakeshore site located in the north-eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa, previously known as Zaire. This...
carved with notches during the Upper Palaeolithic; a notable example is the Ishango Bone. Historical reference is made by Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) about...
ivory Venus figurine was excavated close to the bone. The Ishango bone, found in the Ishango region of the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo, is...
discovered in 1878 in Bernissart, Belgium. Another famous piece is the Ishango bone, which was discovered in 1960 by Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt in...
presentation". Ishango bone. Brussels, Belgium: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. "The Ishango Bone, Democratic...
2021. Retrieved November 4, 2021. Brooks, A. S.; Smith, C. C. (1987). "Ishango revisited: new age determinations and cultural interpretations". The African...
serve mnemonic or conventional functions, rather than meaning numbers. The Ishango bone is an artifact with a sharp piece of quartz affixed to one end, perhaps...
early to mid-Holocene, as shown by other evidence at the lakeshore site of Ishango. The site is littered with catfish bones and the harpoons are the correct...
historians suggest that the Lebombo bone (dated about 43,000 years ago) and the Ishango bone (dated about 22,000 to 30,000 years ago) are the oldest arithmetic...
years old, according to 24 radiocarbon datings. This is far older than the Ishango bone with which it is sometimes confused. Other notched bones are 80,000...
texts are those of ancient Sumer. The Census Quipu of the Andes and the Ishango Bone from Africa both used the tally mark method of accounting for numerical...
Egyptian, Greek, Indian,[citation needed] and Chinese civilizations. The Ishango bone, dated to about 18,000 to 20,000 BC, may hint at a knowledge of multiplication...
and does not have extensive human habitation on its shores, except at Ishango (DRC) in the north, home to a park ranger training facility. About two-thirds...
Age in Central Africa. By at least 2,000,000 BP, Central Africa (e.g., Ishango, Democratic Republic of Congo) was occupied by early hominins. West African...
between "one", "two", and "many", but not of numbers larger than two. The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river (northeastern Congo)...
Brussels. He gained international fame in 1950 when he discovered the Ishango Bone "Jean de Heinzelin was a geologist. A kind of a modern adventurer...
18 ka 20ka BC – 16ka BC End of Gravettian culture, start of Solutrean. Ishango Bone, thought by some to be a tally stick. 1.9-km Tenoumer crater in Mauritania...
computing List of pioneers in computer science Vacuum-tube computer The Ishango bone is a bone tool, dated to the Upper Paleolithic era, about 18,000 to...
one significant group of Hippos now remains in Virunga National Park, in Ishango on the Northern shore of Lake Edward. To help secure the safety of these...
way of knowing if they were used for counting. Jones then discusses the Ishango bone, which must have been used for counting, because there are 60 scratches...
dates from the Aurignacian, about 30,000 years ago. The 20,000-year-old Ishango Bone – found near one of the sources of the Nile in the Democratic Republic...
Belgian ichthyologist Max Poll, the type locality given was Semliki River at Ishango in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The type was collected by Hubert Damas...
course alters the apparent location of the border. The Semliki begins near Ishango, DRC, at the northern end of Lake Edward and soon enters Virunga National...
australopithecine in the western branch of the East African Rift was reported in Ishango, Democratic Republic of the Congo. At present, the classification of Australopithecus...
B4. The prime quadruplet {11, 13, 17, 19} is alleged to appear on the Ishango bone although this is disputed. Excluding the first prime quadruplet, the...
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