The First Writing
The Ancients
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The Lunar Meteorological Calendar
There's not many possibilities available as a way of dividing up the annual year in a repetitive fashion so the moon is by far and away the most obvious. In fact since the 1960s paleolithic archeologists have speculated as to some sequences of marks reflecting a lunar calendar Ironically not so convincing these days but anyway that's the always the obvious candidate for a society who doesn't need to sow crops or reap them at a certain time.
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