"World's oldest calendar" - Mesolithic Lunar Warren Fields Calendar vs Solar Calendar of Neolithic Stonehenge & Irish Newgrange -  Selective Attention-Orientation - "a" key to personalities, politics & religion: William James, J Bargh, Muzafer Sherif + Mannheim
Creators: name: Peck Jr, Charles E
Publisher: name: academia.edu
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Attention (Title)
subject: Center for World Indigenous Studies
subject: Blaan (Philippine people)
subject: Filipino Americans--Psychology
subject: Filipinos
subject: University of Pittsburgh. Dept. of Anthropology
subject: Society for Applied Anthropology
subject: India. Dept. of Archaeology
subject: England--Stonehenge
subject: Scottish Americans
subject: Irish studies
subject: Stone worship
subject: Association for Humanistic Psychology
subject: Existential psychology--History

description: 1.	"Selective attention," also called "selectivity bias"—the tendency to orient oneself toward and process information from only one part of our environment to the exclusion of other parts, no matter how obvious those parts may be."  David DiSalvo 
2.	"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are!" - Ortega y Gasset, a 20th century Spanish philosopher, introduced existentialism and perspectivism to Latin American philosophy.
3.	Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us "We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world."  Iain McGilchrist
Point of Order: Neuroscience focuses on "selective attention as an evolutionary adaptive trait. In context of a motivation for hunter gatherers during that stage in human development, the spiritual and religious beliefs in animal spirits would serve to focus attention of humanity at that time on animals which - at that time - was the source of their survival and sustenance. Furthermore, in light of Erica Hill's analysis of Arctic Hunter gatherers which showed beliefs were integrated into society in roles and rituals, the beliefs focused attention of the community on the activity of hunting-gathering of animals. 
Preview: Lunar orientation vs Solar Orientation: The archaeological evidence reveals a fascinating contrast in astronomical orientations between different ancient societies.  The Warren Fields site in Scotland, dating back 10,000 years, represents the world's oldest known calendar with a lunar orientation used by hunter-gatherer societies. This lunar focus was similarly reflected in Native American hunter-gatherer cultures, where most tribes reckoned 12 moons to a year. In contrast, later agrarian societies developed more solar-oriented structures, as evidenced by Stonehenge's solar corridor and Newgrange's midwinter sunrise alignment. This shift from lunar to solar symbolism, particularly visible in the transition from Stonehenge 2 to Stonehenge 3, suggests fundamental changes in "selective attention" toward an agrarian focus which changes peoples' orientation.