Time and a Place: A luni-solar 'time-reckoner' from 8th millennium BC Scotland

Time and a Place: A luni-solar 'time-reckoner' from 8th millennium BC Scotland

The capacity to conceptualise and measure time is amongst the most important achievements of human societies, and the issue of when time was 'created' by humankind is critical in understanding how society has developed. A pit alignment, recently excavated in Aberdeenshire (Scotland), provi...

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Main Authors: Vincent Gaffney, Simon Fitch, Eleanor Ramsey, Ron Yorston, Eugene Ch'ng, Eamonn Baldwin, Richard Bates, Christopher Gaffney, Clive Ruggles, Tom Sparrow, Anneley McMillan, Dave Cowley, Shannon Fraser, Charles Murray, Hilary Murray, Emma Hopla, Andy Howard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2013-07-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
Subjects:
pit alignment
Mesolithic
Scotland
calendar
lunar calendar
time
seasons
Online Access:http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue34/gaffney_index.html

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