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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13714297/worlds-oldest-calendar-Turkey.html
Archaeologists have discovered what is thought to be the world's
oldest calendar.
Etched in a 12,000-year-old stone pillar at the mysterious Göbekli
Tepe site in Turkey, experts say it could rewrite our timeline of
civilization.
The timekeeping system strongly suggests ancient humans had
accurate ways to keep time 10,000 years before it was documented
in Ancient Greece in 150 BC.
Another find exciting researchers is that the carvings depict
a comet strike that caused a mini ice age for 1,200 years, which
wiped out large animals and galvanized agricultural development
and complex societies.
. . .
Their interpretation seems logical.
However it has deeper meanings ... that the people
in the region were a lot more sophisticated, and
for a lot longer, than previously guessed. Any
kind of 'calendar' means extensive observation
and calculation of celestial events. This knowledge
does not just appear from scratch, but has to be
developed over a long period and requires SOME
kind of fairly accurate records-keeping methods.
"Word Of Mouth" might not be good enough. Calendars
also require a numbering/counting system. Again,
those don't spring up overnight.
So do many of the finer points of "civilization"
go back well BEFORE 12,000 years ago ? Places
like Gobekli Tepe might not be the BEGINNING
of civ, but the END-PRODUCT of a developed civ.
"Civ", as we define it, seems to have started
in southwestern Turkey and spread from there -
first south, then west. Hmmm ... is GT the
origin area, or should we check a bit further
to the north ? Lots of old piles of dirt ...
what's under them ???