Primitive Time-reckoning A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

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Half-years--Shorter years--The empirical year--_Pars pro toto_ reckoning--The period of the vegetation and the year-- Ignorance of age--Relative age--Designation of years after events--Series of years designated after events--Designation of years in Babylonia and Egypt.