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Eclipses for the ancestors
Culture shapes our experience of these astronomical events, and would have done so for Neanderthals and other ancestral hominins.
![Solar eclipse with bright point of sunlight just emerging from the moon's edge at right of image](/content/images/size/w1460/2024/03/jongsun-lee-F-pSZO_jeE8-unsplash.jpg)
When did our ancestors start looking up to the stars?
Changes in the sky have been important to peoples throughout the world. That connection may go back much further than our species.
![A sculpture of a caveman looking up toward a starry Milky Way](/content/images/size/w1460/2023/02/caveman-statue-in-front-of-stars-unsplash-jeremy-thomas-E0AHdsENmDg-unsplash.jpg)