Possible astronomical depictions in franco-cantabrian paleolithic rock art

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In some cases there is evidence for astronomical depictions among the rock art of the Franco-Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic (40–12 ka BP). Phenological almanacs, some kind of lunar time reckoning, certain asterisms, and manifestations of cosmovisions are probably present.

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Rappenglück, M. A. (2015). Possible astronomical depictions in franco-cantabrian paleolithic rock art. In Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (pp. 1205–1212). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_116

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