The Found The World’s Oldest Calendar From 8,000 B.C.

Do you know where?

This is over 10,000 years old…wow.  It was discovered by British archaeologists in Scotland.  The location is a place called Warren Field near Crathes Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.  They hypothesized that some ancient societies may have used it for season tracking in hunting and gathering.

This pic is of an Aztec calendar

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This is Stonehenge which most believe has astronomical uses

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Here is a bit more on this discovery:

The monument, dated to the 8th millennium BC, is a group of 12 pits. It appears to possess basic calendrical functions and pre-dates the first formal time-measuring devices known to humans by about five thousand years, says new analysis published in the journal Internet Archaeology.

According to the study, the structure appears to mimic the phases of the Moon in order to track lunar months over the course of a year. The Warren Field site also aligns on the Midwinter Sunrise, providing an annual astronomic correction in order to maintain the link between the passage of time, indicated by the Moon, the asynchronous solar year and the associated seasons.

And here is an awesome video on the finding we hope you enjoy.

thanks to sci-news.com for the great info



2 Comments

  1. Josh Swank said:

    10,000?? U think the earth has ONLY been here 10,000 years? Lmao the dinosaurs were here 10s of millions of years ago. . But it’s cool we found a really old calendar

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