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skipvia commented on the word lebombo bone
From Swaziland, approximately 350,000 years old. The bone has a series of 29 notches that were deliberately cut to help ancient bushmen calculate numbers and perhaps also measure the passage of time. It is considered the oldest known mathematical artifact. See Calculating Devices.
January 27, 2008