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Article	ARCHITECTURAL FORM OF SPACE FOR NAVIGATION LUNAR ECLIPSES IN THE STONE AGE of RUSSIAN PLAIN
Authors	V. Kochergin, Moscow Institute of Architecture (State academy), Moscow, Russia
Abstract	The history of architecture reflects the history of mankind and for her needs it is obvious to see incorporated into the genetic basis of its memory. The problem of birth of architectural forms - new to the history and theory of architecture, and it is much needs to understand and in particular the methods of study. The complex from mammoth bones in Mezherich was created as a tool base of lunar calendar where each separate block bore a special information loading and functioned according to its algorithm. Here some "devices" served for direct measurements of time, others served as some kind of memorable “numerical records” of the knowledge of harmonious rhythms of the Moon as though they fixed time in space. Structures from mammoth bones are truly phenomenal in architectural history. Throughout thirty millennia of the Upper Paleolith they seemed to materialize in spatial forms primitive ideas of time, space, the mathematics and cosmogony, rhythm, number, law of alternating events and connection of rhythms of the life with rhythms of the heaven. In paper, based on statistical analysis in the context of a general history of culture represented, as in the prehistoric world of functionally meaningful architectural space fit for systematic study of the frequency of lunar eclipses.
Keywords:	The prediction of lunar eclipses, mammoth tusk, architecture, Stone age, culture, architectural form, history
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