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nigelswift
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Re: Social cohesion
Mar 28, 2006, 19:00
"I also don't believe that stone circles were necessary for people to *know* about the time of year. It is far too easy to know the time of the year by crossing out days in a homemade calendar."

I agree. You can cross out days on a home made calendar, or you can simply look at where the sun goes down. That tells you where you are in the year to an accuracy of a single day.

With such a perfect and accurate means of knowing the time of year available to every farmer I can't help thinking that stone circles and interest in the moon both owed less to practical need and more to priestly and ritual showing off.
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