Some very old pottery may reveal something new about the history of human thought. Take a look at the flowers painted on these eight-thousand-year-old bowls. Archaeologists note they show flowers with four, eight, 16, 32, or 64 petals. That indicates the people who painted them were thinking in mathematical terms. The pottery is from a time hundreds of years before ancient texts that prove people were using math. Scientists think this comes from a more rudimentary math, like what would be used t