{"id":2696,"date":"2026-01-14T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:30:00","slug":"january-14th-ice-age-lunar-calendar-in-the-palaeolithic-20000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/january-14th-ice-age-lunar-calendar-in-the-palaeolithic-20000-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice age Lunar Calendar in the Palaeolithic (20,000 years ago) 14th January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2022-10-05-14.00.41-sketched-1024x550.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2022-10-05-14.00.41-sketched-1024x550.png 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2022-10-05-14.00.41-sketched-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2022-10-05-14.00.41-sketched-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2022-10-05-14.00.41-sketched.png 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Moon over 28 days, sketch from photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This page is about the discovery of evidence for an Ice age Lunar Calendar. The alignment of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments shows that there was a calendar of the year in use.  But in 2023, evidence of a Palaeolithic Calendar was discovered by an &#8216;amateur&#8217;. Furniture maker Ben Bacon studied  markings in cave paintings at Lascaux, Altamira and other caves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"485\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lunar-calendar-sketch.png\" alt=\"Sketch of 23,000 year old cave painting, below the head of the animal are  dots which arethought to be lunar months of the mating season\" class=\"wp-image-4368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lunar-calendar-sketch.png 485w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lunar-calendar-sketch-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sketch of 23,000 year old cave painting, below the head of the animal are  4 dots which are thought to be lunar months of the mating season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He collaborated with Professors at UCL and Durham. They interpreted markings showing the use of an Ice age Lunar Calendar to mark the mating season of particular animals. A Y shaped mark he interpreted as meaning &#8216;giving birth&#8217;. The number of dots or dashes drawn by or in the outline of the creature coincided with their mating season. They determined this by studying the mating season of modern animals, which corresponded with the palaeolithic markings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further details, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/cambridge-archaeological-journal\/article\/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar\/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19#article\">article in Cambridge Archaeology here.<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Stonehenge, there are suggestions that the alignments to Midsummer and Midwinter Solstices stretch further back into the Mesolithic period. (For more about Stonehenge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/new-discovery-about-stonehenge\/\">see my post<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On this Day! A Whopping, whopping mallard!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1437 <\/strong>&#8211; Workmen discovered a giant Mallard which inaugurated &#8216;Mallard Day&#8217; at All Souls, College, Oxford. It must have been colossal, as they celebrated with an annual torch lit duck hunt on the nearby River Thames. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, it is no longer annual and has been relegated to a once-a-century event. Each year, however, all they do is sing the song:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Griffin, Bustard, Turkey, Capon, <br>Let other hungry mortals gape on,<br>And on the bones their stomach fall hard, <br>But let All Souls men have their Mallard.<br>Oh! by the blood of King Edward. <br>Oh! by the blood of King Edward. <br>It was a whopping, whopping mallard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, let us sing and dance a galliard,<br>To the remembrance of the mallard. <br>And as the mallard dives in pool,<br>Let us dabble, dive and duck in bowl.<br>Oh! by the blood of King Edward. <br>Oh! by the blood of King Edward. <br>It was a whopping, whopping mallard <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chambers. Book of Days, 1864<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1872 <\/strong>Greyfriars Bobby died.  Bobby was a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skye_Terrier\">Skye Terrier<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dandie_Dinmont_Terrier\">Dandie Dinmont Terrier<\/a>. When his master died, he spent 14 years guarding his owner&#8217;s grave in the famous Greyfriars&#8217; graveyard in Edinburgh.  There are books, there are films, there are statues. But facts are in short supply. One claim is that stray dogs have been known to  find their way into graveyards, people feed them. The dog makes it their home.  So Bobby may not have been related to anyone buried there, and was devoted to the food he was given. But then that ruins a good story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"6f6d59\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #6f6d59;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"10075\" src=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_apr_19_08-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10075 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_apr_19_08-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_apr_19_08-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_apr_19_08-768x432.webp 768w, 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https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_bobby_apr_19_05-scaled.webp 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Statue of Greyfriars Bobby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"8e876d\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #8e876d;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"10073\" src=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_bobby_apr_19_11-663x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10073 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_bobby_apr_19_11-663x1024.webp 663w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_bobby_apr_19_11-194x300.webp 194w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_bobby_apr_19_11-768x1187.webp 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_bobby_apr_19_11-994x1536.webp 994w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/edinburgh_greyfriars_bobby_apr_19_11.webp 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Burial Stone marking the grave of Greyfriars Bobby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos K Flude<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1896 <\/strong>&#8211; First public screening of a motion picture was given in London at the Royal Photographic Society.   But was it, as with most inventions, much more complex than that<a href=\"https:\/\/friesegreene.com\/2021\/03\/17\/who-what-when-where-a-mini-chronology-of-the-start-of-cinema\/\">? So read WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? A mini chronology of the start of\u00a0cinema<\/a> to see how it really was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Finale<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All together now What was it?  &#8216;A Whopping, whopping mallard!.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First published 2023, Whopping Mallard! Introduced, 2025, Greyfriars Bobby developed 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is about the discovery of evidence for an Ice age Lunar Calendar. The alignment of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments shows that there was a calendar of the year in use. But in 2023, evidence of a Palaeolithic Calendar was discovered by an &#8216;amateur&#8217;. Furniture maker Ben Bacon studied markings in cave paintings &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/january-14th-ice-age-lunar-calendar-in-the-palaeolithic-20000-years-ago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ice age Lunar Calendar in the Palaeolithic (20,000 years ago) 14th January&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112,11,106,116,321,118,115,423,23,10,185,105,382,481,18,712,402,322],"tags":[191,483,1982,1978,482,1981,1983,1979,20,342,97,190],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac-of-the-past","category-archaeology","category-bronze-age","category-calendar","category-europe","category-events","category-folklore","category-france","category-heritage","category-medieval","category-nature","category-neolithic","category-oxford","category-palaeolithic","category-prehistoric","category-science","category-stonehenge","category-uk","tag-bronze-age","tag-cave-paintings","tag-duck-hunt","tag-ice-age","tag-lunar-calendar","tag-mallard","tag-mallard-day","tag-mesolithic","tag-neolithic","tag-oxford","tag-palaeolithic","tag-stonehenge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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