Re: News report on Penhallow's lecture

In article <HI2vh.30574$E02.12459@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
noninger_@xxxxxxxxx (Inger E\(NorahD\)) wrote:

If there is one thing we do know for certain at least
from Bronze Age on forward it is that exact observation
of stars and constellation was essential.

Why Inger? I never thought that was essential. Being able
to predict Lunar and Solar eclipses might have been useful
but did not involve stars or constellations (well the Sun
is a star), also I suppose being able to determine seasons
would be useful, but that also requires the Sun and the
Moon not stars. Just about all the undisputed alignments
in monuments are Lunar or Solar.

Ken Young
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