Mesopotamian Calendars
Abstract
The civil calendar used throughout ancient Mesopotamia was a lunisolar calendar. This chapter discusses the structure of the calendar, local variations, the role of the calendar in society, and the increasing use of astronomy in the management of the calendar during the first millennium BC.
- Publication:
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Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy
- Pub Date:
- 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_189
- Bibcode:
- 2015hae..book.1841S
- Keywords:
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- Physics