NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lascaux, Neolithic, Paleolithic
22 Jul 2017
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Some look like star positions/ lunar cycles/ star paths. Images of animal and human symbols, as well as abstract symbols. 1970: alexander marshack published interpretation of markings on bone as representing phases of moon. Moon used as calendar, has to do with geometry of sun. In northeast mexico (= gestation period for female whitetail deer) Notches/lines count days in 7 lunar cycles = 207 days. Exact age unknown mural done in stages, with notches being most recent. Done by neolithic hunter-gatherers, few thousand years bce. More relics like it in and around mexico. 1st farming societies in greece to beginning of bronze age. *c. before a date stands for circa" and refers to about/around". Stonehenge has evidence of being built during both mesolithic and neolithic era. Henge = circle formation, can be wood or ditch. Entrance points in the direction of sunrise on the winter solstice. Bones, pottery, and beads found in it. Sky looked slightly different in ancient times.
