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Well done Mr Bacon -- solving the #lunar 
calendar notation recording species' reproductive cycles in the #UpperPalaeolithic
Now let's link in the imagery of #womens #menstrual cyclicity and we are on our way to reconstructing the Upper Paleolithic cosmology as an 'ideology of blood' 
Paper linked 
Another super interesting paper by #BernieTaylor on #lunar #timekeeping and animal behaviour in #UpperPalaeolithic #rockart here
https://www.academia.edu/86645040/Lunar_Timekeeping_in_Upper_Paleolithic_Cave_Art
Article of mine almost 20 years old on the linkage of women's and game animal in #huntergatherer ethnography and #rockart from S/E #Africa and #UpperPalaeolithic
http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/sites/default/files/pdf/pub_power_rockart.pdf
And we should acknowledge the long ago work by #AlexanderMarshack on 'timefactored' notations and lunar calendars in the #UpperPaleolithic
This is his wonderful photo of a detail from the #Lalinde Plaquette, c.13,000 years old from Dordogne -- a #ritual artefact of a #lunar and #menstrual cosmology. Carved into soft limestone, it shows dancing, female figures linked by the powerpoints of their #vulvas with grooving that has apparently been ritually repeated.
