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PRE-HISTORY ---------------------------------------------------------------

~30,000 BC: First notations of the number of days in a lunar month - marks on animal bones (Marshack).

~2000 BC: Stonehenge - the first lunar observatory? Long sides of "station rectangle" point to extreme north position of the Moon.(Journal for the History of Astronomy 5, 71-90; 1974)