‘Lunar calendar’ found in caves may predate equivalent record-keeping systems by at least 10,000 years
A primitive writing system used by ice age hunter-gatherers appears to have been uncovered by an amateur archaeologist, who concluded that the 20,000-year-old markings were a form of lunar calendar.
He approached a team of academics with his theory and they encouraged him to pursue it, despite him being “effectively a person off the street”, he said. Cave paintings of species such as reindeer, fish and now extinct cattle called aurochs and bison have been found across. Alongside these images, sequences of dots and other marks have been found in more than 600 ice age images on cave walls and portable objects across Europe. Archaeologists have long believed these markings had meaning but no one had deciphered them.
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