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The Oldest Lunar Calendar on Earth

Monday, September 21, 2009

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The Oldest Lunar Calendar on Earth

The Oldest Lunar Calendars and Earliest Constellations have been identified in cave art found in France and Germany. The astronomer-priests of these late Upper Paleolithic Cultures understood mathematical sets, and the interplay between the moon annual cycle, ecliptic, solstice and seasonal changes on earth. By looking into the past some 32,000 B.C., we gain an idea of how our ancestors first made sense of the heavens.

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