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It did not start with numbers but proportional patterns of living and utility things. Although some of these were exaggerated nevertheless the intended features were clearly defined. For painting: a bull, a horse, a fish, a stenciled right hand, or a stenciled left hand. For sculptures: a man, a woman, a child, or a lion man.

In Germany: the Lion Man of Hohlenstein Stadel carved mammoth ivory circa 28000 BC of the Aurignacian Period. In Austria: Venus of Willendorf carved and painted limestone and in France: Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle, charcoal and ochre on limestone both circa 25000 BC of Gravettian Period. Through the ages of space and time more and more of these mathematical patterns and designs were found in caves, archeological digs, and stone surfaces. In Spain: Altamira Bison circa 15000 BC of Magdalenian Period. In Italy: Addaura Cave Ritual Scene circa 11000 BC, Epipaleolithic Period. In Argentina: Hand Stencils circa 9500 BC, Late Pleistocene, Early Holocene Period. In Greece: Reclining Figurine, 6000 BC, Early Neolithic Period.
In every culture around the world a typical distinctive art form exists. But where and when these art forms became abstract representations then and only then marked the birth of numerals.

References: http://www.phaidon.com/Default.aspx/Web/30000-years-of-art-9780714847894
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/HistoryTopics.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/toc.html