Stone age counting

What could these drawings, found in a cave in Spain, represent?

Problem



These drawings were found in La Pileta cave in Spain and could be up to $25 000$ years old.

What do you think these drawings represent?

Could they be about counting things?

What might 'stone-age' people count?

Might they be the earliest known number patterns?

You could try and make up your own way of recording counting.

 

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Stone Age Counting



 

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