Yeah, that's a great suggestion. I'm guessing I'll try to talk somewhat about preagricultural astronomy when I go over the astronomy of paleolithic peoples. B

Yeah, that's a great suggestion. I'm guessing I'll try to talk somewhat about preagricultural astronomy when I go over the astronomy of paleolithic peoples. But you're right that there's a lot we don't know, and even just talking about what we don't know would be interesting. The Seven Sisters stories are fascinating. As I recall something like 60 or 70% of cultures enumerate seven members in their story and the other 30-40% enumerate six. (Maybe I have that backwards.) Even more interesting, a small number of cultures have stories about how there once were seven, but one of the sisters died, leaving six. There's a great paper that argues that due to the proper motion of one of the stars there were seven stars visible tens of thousands of years ago, but that it is now too close to another to be distinguished, leaving six. [1] [1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.09170.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.09170.pdf