Berlin Gold Hat
The tendency to ascribe ancient artifacts to &quot;ritual purposes&quot; or religion always astounds me.<p>This is a calendar. It&#x27;s proven to be a calendar. We know how it works as a calendar. It&#x27;s a tool for predicting celestial events.<p>It doesn&#x27;t need to be hand-wavingly described as &quot;worn by a priest or diety of a sun-god religion&quot;. What evidence is there for that? Which sun-god?<p>Why is there never any proof or evidence required for saying an artifact has a religious purpose?<p>It&#x27;s like saying &quot;this object, that we know to be a screwdriver, must be an item of ritual significance to the god of Sunday Afternoon Home Maintenance, and used by their priests in their rituals&quot;