There's evidencethat we were counting time using the lunar cycleat least 34,000 years ago...
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There's evidence
that we were counting time using the lunar cycle
at least 34,000 years ago from carvings on bones
discovered in Africa and a series of
circles and crescents etched into an antler
found in Europe that are believed to show
the phases of the moon
that we were counting time using the lunar cycle
at least 34,000 years ago from carvings on bones
discovered in Africa and a series of
circles and crescents etched into an antler
found in Europe that are believed to show
the phases of the moon
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There's evidence
that we were counting time
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using the lunar cycle
at least 34,000 years ago
00:00:08.226 --> 00:00:12.289
from carvings on bones
discovered in Africa
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and a series of
circles and crescents
00:00:15.019 --> 00:00:17.416
etched into an antler
found in Europe
00:00:17.516 --> 00:00:20.713
that are believed to show
the phases of the moon.
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With breath-taking CGI, beautiful landscape footage and some of the world's most important astronomical artefacts, Ancient Skies looks at the cosmos through the eyes of our ancestors, and our changing views of the cosmos throughou...
