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  • How Stone Age Britons were the first to invent a calendar with rocks in a pit

    07/14/2013 8:16:15 AM PDT · by Renfield · 7 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 7-14-2013 | Shari Miller
    Their stone tools may have been simple and their dwellings made from simple straw huts, but ancient Britons were in fact ahead of the times - literally - when it came to the world's first ever calendar. That's the claim of archaeologists who believe they have found evidence of a giant 'year clock' capable of tracking lunar months and the changing seasons in a field near Banchory in Aberdeenshire. Dating back 10,000 years, it is twice the age of time-keeping systems created by the ancient Mesopotamians, which were thought to be the world's oldest.....