Neolithic Cosmologics

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The Neolithic Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4,500 and 2,000 BC.
The Neolithic conception of the universe may have consisted of their territory as marked by the "distant" horizon, of the sky where the heavenly bodies move, and an awareness of the periodicity of various solar bodies so as to make accurate predictions about the Sun and Moon.
Some of the clues to Neolithic cosmology is the perception of the Spring full moon during Neolithic period can reveal awareness of the cosmologic order and its appropriation by humans.

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