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measuring time in prehistory

Linnaeus · 2016-02-26 12:38:17

Do we have any evidence of how Palaeolithic man measured time? By the rising and setting of the sun, by the phases of the moon, perhaps? By shadow clocks, such as the ancient Greeks used? Which were the first hominids that probably had a concept of time, and knew of ways to measure it? Could notches on ancient bone…

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Do we have any evidence of how Palaeolithic man measured time? By the rising and setting of the sun, by the phases of the moon, perhaps? By shadow clocks, such as the ancient Greeks used? Which were the first hominids that probably had a concept of time, and knew of ways to measure it?

Could notches on ancient bone instruments possibly represent the passage of days, months, years?

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