The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest pieces of evidence of mathematical thinking.

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

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Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into everyday art.