History of calendar ...
explain briefly about each month
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The history of calendars, that is, of people creating and using methods for keeping track of days and larger divisions of time, covers a practice with ancient roots.
Archeologists have reconstructed methods of timekeeping that go back to prehistoric times at least as old as the Neolithic.
The ancient Sumerian calendar divided a year into 12 lunar months of 29 or 30 days.[8] Each month began with the sighting of a new moon. Sumerian months had no uniform name throughout Sumer because of the religious diversity.[9] This resulted in scribes and scholars referring to them as "the first month", "the fifth month", etc.[citation needed] To keep the lunar year of 354 days in step with the solar year of 365.242 days an extra month was added periodically, much like a Gregorian leap year.[9] There were no weeks in the Sumerian calendar.[10] Holy days and time off from work were usually celebrated on the first, seventh and fifteenth of each month. In addition to these holy days, there were also feast days which varied from city to city.
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The ancient Sumerian calendardivided a year into 12 lunar months of 29 or 30 days. Each month began withthe sighting of a new moon. ... To keepthe lunar year of 354 days in step withthe solar year of 365.242 days an extramonth was added periodically, much like a Gregorian leap year.