World's oldest calendar found

ceptimus · #1 07-15-2013, 10:05 AM

BBC News - 'World's oldest calendar' discovered in Scottish field

godfry n. glad · #2 07-16-2013, 03:42 AM

So...They are saying that the really early, early calendars were the pits?

I'm curious...How is it that they determined the age of the holes in the ground?

Kyuss Apollo · #3 07-16-2013, 04:03 AM

If the hole once contained a wooden post, the organic matter (dirt) that was once the post can be carbon dated, up to 50 kya.

erimir · #4 07-16-2013, 04:13 AM

This statement seems pretty dumb.

Quote:

Dave Cowley, aerial survey projects manager at RCAHMS, said: "We have been taking photographs of the Scottish landscape for nearly 40 years, recording thousands of archaeological sites that would never have been detected from the ground.

"Warren Field stands out as something special, however. It is remarkable to think that our aerial survey may have helped to find the place where time itself was invented."