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Possible Calendrical Inscriptions on Paleolithic Artifacts

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During the Upper Paleolithic (40–12 ka BP) people used observation-based and early kinds of rule-based astronomical systems of time reckoning. Paleolithic versions of almanacs and calendars based on lunar, solar, lunisolar, and sidereal time reckoning are recorded on mobile objects and cave walls. Typical are combinations and synchronizations of astronomical periods with biological cycles of certain animals and the human female.

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  • Full Moon
  • Gestation Period
  • Summer Solstice
  • Winter Solstice
  • Autumn Equinox

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Rappenglück, M.A. (2015). Possible Calendrical Inscriptions on Paleolithic Artifacts. In: Ruggles, C. (eds) Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_115

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