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Carvings at Göbekli Tepe are thought to represent the world’s oldest calendar. Credit: Dr Martin Sweatman
The research suggests ancient people were able to record their observations of the sun, moon, and constellations in the form of a solar calendar, created to keep track of time and mark the change of seasons. A fresh analysis of V-shaped symbols carved onto pillars at the site has found that each V could represent a single day. This interpretation allowed researchers to count a solar calendar of 365 days on one of the pillars, consisting of 12 lunar months plus 11 extra days.
The find also appears to confirm that ancient people were able to record dates using precession – the wobble in Earth’s axis which affects the movement of constellations across the sky – at least 10,000 years before the phenomenon was documented by Hipparchus of Ancient Greece in 150 BC.
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