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Berlin Gold Hat points to Bronze Age skykeeping
Key Takeaways
- The Berlin gold hat dates to roughly 1000 to 800 B.C. and is the best preserved of four known examples.
- Researchers have argued that its decorative bands encode numerical values used to track lunar and solar cycles.
- The interpretation raises the possibility that ritual elites used astronomical knowledge as a source of authority.
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