[Aztlan] Re: Aztlan Digest, Vol 6, Issue 9... Calendar

[rod44 at comcast.net]

Funny you should mention this... I remember examining several of these artifacts in "Le  Musee de L'Homme" in Paris 7 or 8 years ago  they are always reported as "spear shaft straghtening  tools"  but local archeologists admit they don't really know what they were for (speculations arise from power batons to throwing sticks)
I just returned from a trip to the N. Central states and several sites  there and saw one such identical  device, also labeled "antler with large hole used as a wrench to straighten spear shafts" at the University of Nebraska Museum of Natural Hystory at Lincoln.  Reported as Middle Archaic from a site  in MacPherson Co.  I was surprised that it was IDENTICAL  to the Cromagnon artifacts.
I did not inspect it close up so I cant say about notches or indentations.
JJR
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> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:12:58 -0400 
> From: Sam Edgerton 
> Subject: [Aztlan] Ancient calendars 
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> Sid y otros listeros: In his elegant book, THE ROOTS OF CIVILIZATION 
> (McGrew/Hill, New York, 1972), Alexander Marshak, applying NASA 
> photo-technology for imaging details on distant astronomical bodies to the 
> hundreds of carved antler bones found in the ancient Paleolithic caves of 
> southern France and Northern Spain, revealed that these 40,000 +/- year old 
> artifacts, each about a foot long and often with a hole drilled in one end, 
> were covered with rows of parallel cuts, almost obscured by time but 
> revealed under photo magnification as man made. Some bones even had tiny 
> teeth indented along the edges. In studying a great number of these Marshak 
> realized that the cuts or teeth were almost always in tight rows of 
> twenty-nine or thirty, or separated by smaller cuts numbering four or six - 
> in other words remarkably recording the daily changes in the moon from new 
> to full to new again both waxing and waning phases. Apparently they were 
> suspended from the belts of Cro-Magnon hunters who used them to check when 
> the caribou might be returning (or when to impregnate their wives). Could 
> these be the world's earliest hanging calendars? And might there be 
> similar artifacts in Neolithic America? 
> Sam Edgerton 
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> http://lanfiles.williams.edu/~sedgerto/MARSHAK.jpg 
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