Talk:Mesoamerican calendars
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[edit] First calendar?
I've removed the following claim, which (although provided with a reference) is incorrect:
- They are the first to have created a calendar. Alisau, Patricia. "Not just a pretty face", Business Mexico, November 11, 1990. Retrieved on 2006-10-20. (in English)
While the provided source probably does say something along those lines, an article in Business Mexico is not an authorative source for this kind of information. Just when the Mesoamerican calendar system was first developed is not known, but the earliest-known examples date from around the (mid-) 1st millennium BCE; a number of other calendar systems (eg Egyptian calendar, Babylonian calendar) are attested at least a thousand years before this.--cjllw | TALK 01:31, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
