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used for static text. Notched sticks, known as tally sticks, were also historically used for this purpose.

Early history

Counting aids other than body parts appear in the Upper Paleolithic. The oldest tally sticks date to between 35,000 and 25,000 years ago, in the form of notched bones found in the context of the European Aurignacian to

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