485–425 BC) reported the use of a knotted cord by Darius I of Persia (c. Related to the single tally concept are messenger sticks (e.g., Inuit tribes), the knotted cords, khipus or quipus, as used by the Inca. The single tally stick serves predominantly mnemonic purposes. The single tally stick was an elongated piece of bone, ivory, wood, or stone which is marked with a system of notches (see: Tally marks). The head of an ivory Venus figurine was excavated close to the bone. Dated to the Aurignacian, approximately 30,000 years ago, the bone is marked with 55 marks which some believe to be tally marks. The so-called Wolf bone is a prehistoric artefact discovered in 1937 in Czechoslovakia during excavations at Vestonice, Moravia, led by Karl Absolon.The Lebombo Bone is a baboon's fibula with 29 distinct notches, discovered within the Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains of Swaziland.
#TALLY STICKS SERIES#
It has a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the tool. It is a dark brown length of bone, the fibula of a baboon.
Paleolithic tally sticksĪ number of anthropological artefacts have been conjectured to be tally sticks: A common form of the same kind of primitive counting device is seen in various kinds of prayer beads. Principally there are two different kinds of tally sticks, the single and the split tally. Single and split tallies from the Swiss Alps, 18th to early 20th century ( Swiss Alpine Museum)
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