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Man Solves 20,000-Year-Old Cave Drawings Mystery That’s Been Stumping Archeologists
- A London furniture restorer proposes that cave painting marks encode a lunar calendar tracking animal reproductive cycles.
- Researchers say Ice Age markings likely track reproductive cycles in lunar months, showing early timekeeping.
- Durham University and University College London academics reviewed Bacon’s data against birth cycles of animals like cows.
- Professor Paul Pettitt says Ice Age hunters used systemic timekeeping recorded in cave art.
- The study links lunar-month cycles to a broader understanding of information sharing in early humans.
- The research suggests cave art served a survival function by recording ecological events.
- Bacon assembled data from internet imagery and the British Library to test his hypothesis.
- The team frames the markings as a ‘proto-writing system’ and calendar.
- Researchers emphasize that Ice Age art may reveal early timekeeping and ecological recording.
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