VINCA CALENDAR

How they kept time eight thousand years ago

History

The oldest pocket calendar in the world, about 8.000 years old, was found at the archaeological site of Medvednjak, near Smederevska Palanka in Šumadija.

The calendar was made using a wild boar’s tusks. In its outer part there are 28 miniature triangular indentations carved on the inside. This corresponds to a month cycle of 28 days with four distinctive moon phases and suggests that the tusks were used to denote a lunar calendar.

Project

At the beginning of 2017, in the organization of Kovionica Cultural Park, the Medvednjak calendar was reconstructed using marble.

Creative team

Project Author: Srđan Stanišić
Replica in stone: Zoran Krička
Design: Konstantin Stanišić