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| At first they used objects to count. | Signs were drawn into sand with finger or an object (a piece of twig, flat pebble, etc.) |
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| The soft clay was very good helper in counting. | They pressed signs with finger
into soft clay. Szintén ujjal vagy eszközzel a puha agyagba jeleket nyomtak.
Later they used clay boards, which were dried and baked. |
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| The signs which were scratched in wood, bones or the walls of caves fixed the quantities more permanently. The usage of scored stick followed our history for a long time. |
A wolfbone in Dolni Vestonice
The scored stick could be more simple when the notch was carved into an unworked twig but it could be a masterpiece as the scored stick from Debrecen. |
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| Tie a knot in our handkerchief
in order not to forget something...
Who thought that this method is such an old one in noting numbers down. |
Knots were tied on objects which were made of fibres, leather straps, etc. |
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| The animal keeping required the counting of animals. | When they let out the animals they put a pebble into a bowl after every animal which left the sheepfold. When the animals came back they took out a pebble from the bowl after every animal went into the sheepfold. This way they counld count the animals. |
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