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Lunisolar calendar paper accepted for publication

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At last, my lunisolar calendar paper has been accepted for publication in Time and Mind. I must once again thank Dr John Gordon for emailing me the initial insight about the lunar cycle that appears on Pillar 43 (the top row of V-symbols in the picture above). The rest of the paper followed from this. (Dr John Gordon is a psychiatrist at the Turning Winds institute in Montana, USA). The article is published open access and available here . I'm making selected images available below for free use, along with links to other images. Pillar 43 at Gobekli Tepe (courtesy of Alistair Coombs) Pillar 43 (right and middle) and  a view from Stellarium (left). Symbols on Pillar 18 compared with the Nebra sky disk (from wikipedia ). Sketch of a likely lunar calendar (from Alexander Marshak, 1972. The Roots of Civilization: the Cognitive Beginning of Man’s First Art, Symbol and Notation. New York: McGraw-Hill). Images of the Master/Mistress of animals can be found here  and here . Sketch of the G