The Flowers That Could Count

Flowers painted on pots around 6200 B.C. come in fours, eights, sixteens and thirty-twos. Some researchers call that early maths.

Researchers argue that flower patterns painted on pottery in northern Mesopotamia from around 6200 B.C., with petals in fours, eights, sixteens and thirty-twos, are some of the earliest examples of maths applied to real objects; a sceptic says skilled patterning does not prove arithmetic.

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