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Our ancestors lived and died by observations and rituals created around annual events in the sky. Such happenings gave a pattern of stability to their world: when to sow crops, when to reap crops, the onset of warmer temperatures, and the onset of colder temperatures, reflected by the seasons.
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Powell, J. (2018). Introduction: From the Past, into the Present, and onto the Future. In: Rare Astronomical Sights and Sounds. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97701-0_1
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