14 DAY TRIAL // A team of archaeologists carrying out excavations in Aberdeenshire, Scotland claim to have unearthed a calendar built roughly 10,000 years ago.
If this is indeed the case, this lunar calendar might just be the world's oldest.
University of Birmingham researchers explain that the ancient calendar discovered in a field at Crathes Castle is made up of 12 pits carefully arranged in a row.
Each pit supposedly represents a month of the year and a phase of the moon.
The hunter-gatherers believed to have pieced together this calendar probably used it to keep track of time and make sure they were ready to deal with seasonal changes in their food supply.
Prior to the discovery of these 12 pits in Scotland, a 5,000-year-old monument discovered in ancient Mesopotamia (i.e. the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system) was considered to be the world's oldest calendar.
Check out the video below to learn more about the lunar calendar recently dug out by archaeologists in Scotland.
