Lebombo bone
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The lebombo bone is the oldest known mathematical artifact.
It dates from 35000 BC and consists of 29 distinct notches that were deliberately cut into a baboon's fibula. It was discovered within a cave in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland.
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