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The First Writing

The Ancients

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Do You Think That's a Good Predictor of Birthing and Mating?

There is always a very restricted pattern so for example with horses whilst this variation you typically get one line followed by a Y. The chances of it arising naturally were infinitesimally small well that was going to be my next question therefore with your conclusions on the lunar calendar pre-agricultural calendar which is fascinating in itself. Do you think they would have been very reliable reliable to quite a good extent for these moving hunter-gatherer societiesYes I think so one thing we can tell using other categories of data is that things often quite sophisticated things are traveling around the landscape over hundreds of kilometers certainly.

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