Expand Section - 4. Alphanumeric Notation and the Calendrical-Musical Kosmos
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The Alphabet and Writing
The complexity of Ice Age notations increased from c. 28,000 BC to the end of the Ice Age c. 10,000 BC. Paleolithic artifacts were engraved or carved with patterns which often turned out not to be “a non-arithmetic form of observational lunar/solar record-keeping” rather than merely decorative (Marshack 1991: p. 9). Notation from the late European Ice Age—the Magdalenian period—“is the end product of a long tradition of non-arithmetical astronomical observation and record-keeping.” Marshack found “a developing, highly structured year—ritual, social, and economic.”
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