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Well, if you consider Adam to be the first man, Adam was 930 years old when he passed away, so someone was counting even then. See related links below.

The Vedas, supposedly the oldest scriptures, are recreated from time to time when necessary, as creation is destroyed again and again, and so it is necessary to recreate the Vedas, and the Vedas use numbers. Numbers seem to be as old as creation is, and if you go by the Vedas, creation is infinitely old. No beginning, no end, if you can conceive of that. Archaeologically the earliest evidence for the use of numbers dates to around 3400BC in Ancient Mesopotamia. Unfortunately, the name of the individual who came up with the idea is unrecorded.

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